[Openstreetmap] What I'm working on

[Frank Mohr]

Schuyler Erle wrote:
>>>wouldn't it be easier (and a more general approach) to export
>>>to shapefiles
>>>as i read the cGPSmapper description, it also imports shapefiles
>>
>>Maybe but: a) Polish format is the "lingua franca" of cGPSmapper and b)
>>that would require more research and I've already got quite a few things on
>>the go right now :-) (see other thread)
> 
> 
> Not that I can claim to have the time myself, but ESRI Shapefiles are
> the lingua franca of, er, every other GIS applications out there, and
> having read the spec, I can assure you that they're *simple*, possibly
> every bit as a simple as Polish format. You can get the PDF of the
> spec directly from ESRI (it's short) and you can use Frank Warmerdam's
> excellent shapelib library to write them. Trust me, it's simple. :-)

and there are wrapper-libs for most script languages (Perl, python, TCL)

I wrote a converter for gns_data files
(ftp://nima.mil/ftp.nima.mil/pub/gns_data/)
in 70 lines of perl .. where about 50 lines are just the documented
data-definition for the dbf file

BTW. i was thinking about a tool to convert Polish format to shape

frank

	

	
		
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