[Mapserver-users] DXF to shp

[opengis]

Howdy,
someone knows if is it possible to use dxf as data source (obviously without bacht traslation) like:
LAYER
	NAME Nth_layer
	DATA my_dxf_file
	STATUS ON
	TYPE ......


Thanks



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>From      : mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
To          : "Walsh, Mike" MICHAEL.WALSH at cubic.com,mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Cc          : 
Date      : Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:38:30 -0800
Subject : Re: [Mapserver-users] DXF to shp

> Mike,
> 
> The FME product has a General translation Engine, a Workbench (where you can merge all kinds of data in all types of formats) and a universal viewer.
> 
> I would recommend the Workbench is you want to do more specific translations as well as compile topology and the like on the data files.
> 
> thanks
> Stephen
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Walsh, Mike 
>   To: 'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu' 
>   Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:07 AM
>   Subject: [Mapserver-users] DXF to shp
> 
> 
>   Thank you for your replies. Do any of the known apps; ArcInfo, FME, CAD2SHAPE
> 
>   Allow the user to place geospecific info into the shp file - even if the original dxf input
> 
>   File has none?
>