[mapserver-users] txt to shp file conversion

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:34:32PM +0200, Alain FERRIOL wrote:
> I downloaded some files from nima :
> ftp://ftp.nima.mil/pub/gns_data
> 
> But they are in txt format.
> 
> Anyone knows how can i handle them?
> 
> Maybe it's possible to convert them in shp files ?

if you convert the txt format into the generate format
as used by ArcInfo then you may use gen2shp for the conversion:

	http://www.intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp/gen2shp.html

There you can see also samples of the generate format.

Best

	Jan

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