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Fri Feb 8 15:06:04 EST 2008

snippet at the bottom of Section 4 about gdaltindex and creating a tile ind=
ex
shapefile.&nbsp; I tried that.&nbsp; <br>
<br>
Here's what I typed: gdaltindex u_of_ill.shp ~/Desktop/UofImapSquares/*.gif=
<br>
<br>
Here's what was returned to me:<br>
It appears no georeferencing is available for<br>
`/home/jimbo/Desktop/UofImapSquares/A0.gif', skipping.<br>
It appears no georeferencing is available for<br>
`/home/jimbo/Desktop/UofImapSquares/A12.gif', skipping.<br>
and so on.........<br>
<br>
Ok.&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; There's no georeferencing info attached.=
<br>
But, how do I go about attaching georeferencing info?&nbsp; <br>
And how do I create, edit, and view a shapefile?<br>
And lastly, do I need a world file to determine a global position for every
tile?<br>
<br>
I tried using a text editor Gedit (I figured What the Hey?) to open them an=
d
nope - wasn't in UTF-8 encoding.<br>
<br>
I did some digging Google and noticed that you can use ArcView GIS, ArcMap,
ArcGIS, and ArcCatalog to create, edit, and view shapefiles.<br>
<br>
I also stumbled across posting that talked about ShapeLib created by Eduard=
o
Patto Kanegae and maintained by Frank Warmerdam.<br>
<br>
I don't have money to spend on buying some GIS program, and ShapeLib seems =
like
the answer.<br>
<br>
Could anyone help?<br>
<br>
&nbsp;- Chris<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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