[Xastir] SDTS to shapefile conversion?

[Jason Winningham]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

> It can, and it's easy. Assumning one has an SDTS vector layer untarred 
> in the
> current directory and gdal installed in the user's path,
>
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output_directory <layer CATD file>

thanks.  I'll try this out.

> Note that USGS has announced that they are retiring the distribution of
> SDTS DLG data on 30 Jan 2005.  They apparently consider it outdated
> and plan to direct folks at national atlas data.  Download of DLG and 
> DEM data
> from the USGS ftp site will be disabled on 30 Jan.  If you like this 
> data and
> want to stock up, your window is closing.

I've got all the DLG data (grabbed it a few weeks ago) and can make it 
available.  I'll step up my search for a suitable server here.

-Jason
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