Importing SHP files

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JoeW
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Importing SHP files

Post by JoeW » Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:49 pm

I have some shape files of some coast lines. How can I use them in SBuilderX?
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meshman
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Re: Importing SHP files

Post by meshman » Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:41 pm

File | Append | ERSI SHP file. But..., the file must be in the Geographic / WGS84 format required by the SDKs. Most of the data is in some other Datum / Projection format and would need to be converted.
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Re: Importing SHP files

Post by JoeW » Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:14 pm

They are ESRI format but thats all it says in the README. What do I need to do? Compile them into a bgl and load the BGL?
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Re: Importing SHP files

Post by meshman » Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:05 pm

There "should" be some type of metadata file that would list the datum and projection. May not be, but that would be surprising. As I mentioned before, if the files are not in the format required by the Shp2Vec compiler, SBuilderX will not load them. There are tools that would chenage the datum/projection to the format required. I "think" FWTools would handle this?
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