[Xastir] Re: ESRI shapefile troubles

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 12:39 PM, russo at bogodyn.org wrote:
>
>>  In a similar vein, I also have a simple dbfawk file for the
>> 24kgrid USGS quadrangle shapefile
>
> Where can one find a 24k quad in shapefile format?  Is there a USGS 
> repository I've missed, or is there a reasonable way to convert them?

the dlgs can be converted. gdal's ogr2ogr should be able to convert any 
vector format to shapefile. Actually, that's not strictly true, but it's 
probably close enough