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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Coordinates to Shapefile |
| Date: |
10/28/2005 09:30:01 AM |
| From: |
Frank Warmerdam |
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On 10/28/05, Jim Cueno <jcueno@ci.galesburg.il.us> wrote:
> I'm trying to build a stand-alone application that will use ArcReader as a viewer that will need to generate shapefiles from a list of coordinates. I'm planning to build an empty shapefile as a placeholder in the PMF file, then programatically adding polygons to that empty shapefile. The polygon vertices are output from a model.
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> I've got the shapefile spec, so if worse comes to worse I can just write it myself, but if there is a low / no cost component out there that can do this for me, I'd rather use it.
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> No ArcGIS component except ArcReader will be available to this application.
Jim,
You don't mention your implementation language. If it is C or C++
you can use the free Shapelib, as many folks do. There are also a
few other potentially useful links on the shapelib page.
http://shapelib.maptools.org/
Best regards,
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