Another question about shapefiles

[Chris]

You can convert it manually -- I don't think there are any tools to do this
automatically since your data can be in many different formats.  It isn't
that difficult to write a simple C or java program to do this.  The
shapefile format is very straightforward.

You should read the whitepaper from ESRI:

www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf

Regards,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Norris [mailto:sirronj at PACBELL.NET]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:57 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Another question about shapefiles


I have a US zip file containing zip codes and associated lat/long
information.  Can I convert this to points on a shapefile?

#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map chr
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);