[gdal-dev] hdf5 to esri shape-file converter

2009-06-17 Thread Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Hi,

 

I was looking for a converter tool to convert a given hdf5 file (.mh5)
to esri shape-files(.shp) and vice versa.

 

Does anyone has any idea about the same?

 

Does anyone see any utility in developing this(if it doesn't exists
already somewhere)?

Thanks,

Chandra

 


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RE: [gdal-dev] hdf5 to esri shape-file converter

2009-06-17 Thread Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Steffen,

Hi Chandra,

 I was looking for a converter tool to convert a given hdf5 file
(.mh5)
to
 esri shape-files(.shp) and vice versa.

GDAL supports reading of HDF5 raster data.
[Chandra ] this is really cool news for me.

But Shape files are vector
data.
The process to convert from raster to vector data is called
Vectorization.
And Vectorization is not a straightforward thing. See e.g

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization_(computer_graphics)
Thanks for the info. It is very useful for me.

But HDF5 can actually many different things:
Are you talking about HDF5 files with raster or vector data?
[Chandra ] I have hdf files holding vector data only(basically
longitude, latitude, speed etc).
Do you think that it will easier now to convert it to shape files?

I thought that just inspecting the hdf-file to grab the vector data
somehow will be really cool if it holds that and the same can be
converted to shape files using ogr api.
May be it is not that cool :(


Many a thanks,
Chandra

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