[Xastir-dev] Anyone else looked at this? - SourceForge.net: Project Info - Little Shape Convertion

[Gerry Creager]

FWIW, also, I've started working on a little code (really!  C!) to read 
the headers from the .shp/.shx files for the bounding boxes of each 
fileset, and write it to a SQL (MySQL for now, although I'm also 
experimenting with PostGres/PostGIS.  We can then talk about a revamp 
that will allow map selection following an SQL query, rather than 
looking at each file.  This will require some thought, though, as it 
seems that the best way to do this would be to have either a fixed 
hierarchy of directory structure, or all the files in a single directory.  

Since right now xastir relies on alphabetization for order of rendering, 
and folks are putting their files in appropriate directories, this might 
cause some problems, if your roads are obscured below the trees, or 
whatever:-0

As for the shape tools, I looked at it but I'm getting some problems... 
like seg faults.  I've not tested extensively but I'm gonna have to look 
at what they're doing.  Also some problems in the files in the archive: 
sym links pointing to things in wrong spots, at least on my systems... 
 Still, for a 0.1 release, it's a nice addition.

gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
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>That's a new project!  Ken may be interested in this.  The "e002shp"
>one has my interest for sure.  If that can convert ESRI Export
>format .E00 files to ESRI Shapefiles, I might be able to snag my
>county GIS's .E00 files and finally use them in Xastir.
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>The mysql one is of lesser interest.  I can't think of a big need
>for that one in Xastir currently.
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