[Mapserver-users] E00 to SHP Conversion Utilities?

[Kieran J. Ames]

>From the ArcView help file:
Examples

The following examples indicate how to run IMPORT71 from the DOS prompt from the
directory that contains the executable. To run IMPORT71 from the program group,
supply only the parameters when prompted.

C:\ARCVIEW3\BIN32> IMPORT71 C:\INTER\TRACTS.E00 C:\STDYAREA\TRACTS
Imports an interchange file named TRACTS.E00 from the C:\INTER directory and
creates a coverage named TRACTS in the C:\STDYAREA workspace.

C:\ARCVIEW3\BIN32> IMPORT71 C:\INTER\MYGRID.E00 C:\GRIDS\MYGRID
Imports an interchange file named MYGRID.E00 from the C:\INTER directory and
creates a grid named MYGRID in the C:\GRIDS directory.

<snip>

These coverages are then able to be loaded in ArcView. The trouble is that (as
far as I know) you need to then manually convert each into a shapefile. I don't
know of any batch routine to accomplish that.

If you invoke import71 without arguments, a windows dialog box pops up that you
then have to manually populate the file names you want. (You can cancel from
there.)

Kieran


Dan Barron wrote:

> Thanks Dave. Unfortunately, I have many many files to convert.  I do have a
> version of import71.exe dated 9-2002, however I'm not too familiar with it
> and the documentation it came with does not mention conversion of e00 to
> shp only to adf or arcgrid format.  Am I missing something?  Also, since I
> am looking to do many files, I prefer to automate the process, can
> import71.exe work in that context?
>
> Dan
>
> At 01:01 PM 3/6/2003 -0600, Lowther, David W wrote:
> >Dan,
> >
> >The utility IMPORT71.exe that comes with Arcview is made for this... I'm not
> >sure if it is available freely or not.
> >
> >If you just have a couple of files Dan send em my way and I'll convert for
> >you.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:morissette at dmsolutions.ca]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:01 AM
> > > To: Dan Barron
> > > Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] E00 to SHP Conversion Utilities?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dan Barron wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a suggestion on the best approach to convert E00
> > > > files to SHP files?  I have tried the FME Suite from Safe
> > > Sowftware,
> > > > are there other available tools/utilities to accomplish this
> > > > conversion?
> > > >
> > >
> > > FME is definitely the best option, but the license may be expensive.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately OGR doesn't support reading E00 files yet,
> > > otherwise using ogr2ogr would be a good option too.  I'm sure
> > > many GIS packages will allow import of E00 and export to
> > > shapefiles, but I don't have any to suggest.
> > >
> > > However, OGR (GDAL 1.1.8) does support reading binary
> > > coverages, so you can do the conversion in two steps if you want:
> > >
> > > 1- Convert your E00s to binary coverages using the
> > > 'AVCIMPORT' utility at
> > > http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-> avce00.html
> > >
> > > 2- Use
> > > 'ogr2ogr' (part of GDAL 1.1.8) to
> > > convert the binary coverages to shapefiles.  There should be
> > > some docs on using ogr2ogr on the OGR website at
> > > http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/index.> html
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
> > >  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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