[Xastir] SDTS to shapefile conversion?

[Jerry Chamberlin]

And All I wanted was a map of the hillbilly areas of Arkansas.

I will decode all the below later, it's Monday and week after vacation.

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

> 
> On Jan 3, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Gerry Creager n5jxs wrote:
> 
> > I haven't played with ogr2ogr for SDTS files.  I don't know if it'll 
> > auto-detect the metadata -- datum/projection, etc.
> >
> > So, yes, the caveat is that it might produce a file, but it might not 
> > be in the datum you expected!
> 
> Well, I'm GIS ignorant, but I picked a 1:24k quad hypsography file, 
> used the ogr2ogr command line that Tom supplied, then displayed both 
> the shapefile and the SDTS versions.  All the yellow SDTS lines covered 
> the black shapfile lines, so they're consistent.  I guess they could be 
> consistently wrong. (:
> 
> Yeah, that's just one data set, but it's encouraging.
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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