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| Subject: | [gislist] Is the SHP format defacto a public standard? |
| Date: |
12/02/2004 09:00:01 PM |
| From: |
Neil Havermale |
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I was struggling again today trying to shoe-horn into my desktop GIS (not
and ESRI solution) some benchmark data from several public sources. Two
translated, one simply failed and three I am having to go back to the
departments which created them to get the proper projection stuff.
Given that ESRI and "its" SHP format is the defacto condition across the US
at Federal and State levels, and the hundreds of millions of "our" dollars
constantly flow to the publics' data bound into SHP, shouldn't the whole
domain of SHP be fully open? Yes, you can go to such and such a place and
get translators but why does SHP remain such a pain in the butt?
I do not have a PhD in GIS nor should I need one to make use of this sort of
public information that is dominated by IMHO an almost transparent defacto
standard.
neil
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