[postgis-users] ESRI and PostGis

[Tyler Mitchell]

OpenEV (http://openev.sourceforge.net/) is your best bet.  If you get it 
then you can also get the ogr2ogr conversion tool which will take 
shapefiles and convert them into/out of various vector formats including 
PostGIS.  I used it all the time and use the OpenEV_FW version from: 
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/gdal/openev/OpenEV_FW_174.zip (for windows).  I 
unzip it onto c: (creates c:\openev_fw) and then run openev.bat.  You can 
create new shapefile layers quite easily.  Sign onto the openev mailing 
list to get more help.

Tyler

postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net wrote on 08/11/2004 08:49:03 
AM:

> **Newbie alert**
> Hi,
> What is the cheapest software from ESRI that I need to purchase to
> create a shapefile that can be used upload data into PostGIS.
> 
> This is what I think I want to do:
> 
> Load a map as a simple scaled jpeg/gif image
> Draw polygons and linestrings as an overlay on the map
> Save the shapfile.
> Convert the shapefile to postgis
> 
> thanks,
> Arni
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