[postgis-users] Open Source .DWG to .SHP converter?

[Jeshua Lacock]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:06 AM, kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm going to convert .SHP to .DWG files, which in turn
> will be converted to postGIS. There is an util named
> CAD2Shape
> (http://www.rockware.com/product/pricing.php?id=73)
> that converts DWG to SHP, but the price is quite
> prohibitive.

Kresh,

I wonder why you would not just go from shp to PostGIS with the  
shp2pgsql command?

> Is there any open source util to convert .DWG to .SHP?
> Thanks.

I personally don't know of one, however, I believe GRASS GIS can open  
a shp file and write to a dwg file.


Cheers,

Jeshua Lacock
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