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Importing SHP files
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:49 pm
by JoeW
I have some shape files of some coast lines. How can I use them in SBuilderX?
Joe W
Re: Importing SHP files
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:41 pm
by meshman
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.
Re: Importing SHP files
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:14 pm
by JoeW
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?
Joe W
Re: Importing SHP files
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:05 pm
by meshman
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?