[Xastir] ESRI shapefile troubles

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> I looked at these shapefiles.  Unfortunately, they are three-dimensional
> polylines (type "SHPT_ARCZ"), and xastir is not currently set up to read those.
> It might be possible to change xastir relatively easily to read 3-D arcs
> and ignore the elevation, but I'm not sure.
>
> However, if you install GDAL with OGR (see INSTALL) you get the ogr2ogr
> program which can convert your 3D shapefiles to 2D.  I just tried it, and
> got your road network to display.

It's cool that he got two entirely different approaches to the
problem, both giving the same sorts of results.


> Attaching world.dbfawk.

Should we include that with Xastir as well?

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