Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
I want to import some data into my database, but it's in an ArcView Shapefile, which I've never worked with. Does anyone know what kind of software I can use to access this data? Actually, I'd probably import it into a spreadsheeet first, then save it as a csv file and import it into my database. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
David - Here is a link to search results on http://www.esri.com. http://search.esri.com/results.cfm? h=10ho=0q=arcview+shapefilesa.x=26sa.y=11 ESRI is the leader in GIS software and the maker of the application, ArcView. Check out the link for the first search result on the link I gave you. The first result is entitled ESRI Shapefile Technical Description . It's a pdf whitepaper, and should get you started. Also, here is GRASS (http://openosx.com/grass/), the opensource alternative to ArcView... Cheers...James On Feb 12, 2005, at 10:01 AM, David Blomstrom wrote: I want to import some data into my database, but it's in an ArcView Shapefile, which I've never worked with. Does anyone know what kind of software I can use to access this data? Actually, I'd probably import it into a spreadsheeet first, then save it as a csv file and import it into my database. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
Hi David, I want to import some data into my database, but it's in an ArcView Shapefile, which I've never worked with. Does anyone know what kind of software I can use to access this data? Actually, I'd probably import it into a spreadsheeet first, then save it as a csv file and import it into my database. I've been working on a library called libmygis which is able to read varoius types of GIS data files (mainly Shapefiles for now). You're in luck. I've recently gotten a working version of mysqlgisimport which is able to take a SHP/SHX/DBF set and turn it into SQL directly to be imported. You can grab the source code of libmygis at: http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/ If you have any questions or need help getting it to work (hey, it's new!) please feel free to drop me a line. Same goes for feature requests. :) Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cole Technical Yahoo - MySQL (Database) Geek Desk: 408 349 5104 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
Aha - that's why I like to ask questions on newsgroups rather than get secondhand news from Google! :) This sounds really cool. One question, though...when you talk about downloading the source code, are you saying your program is for Linux only? As much as I hate Microsoft, I'm still stuck with Windows XP. Actually, someone gave me a computer with a dual boot hard drive and SUSE installed, but I haven't had time to learn how to use it yet. Thanks for the tip! --- Jeremy Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I want to import some data into my database, but it's in an ArcView Shapefile, which I've never worked with. Does anyone know what kind of software I can use to access this data? Actually, I'd probably import it into a spreadsheeet first, then save it as a csv file and import it into my database. I've been working on a library called libmygis which is able to read varoius types of GIS data files (mainly Shapefiles for now). You're in luck. I've recently gotten a working version of mysqlgisimport which is able to take a SHP/SHX/DBF set and turn it into SQL directly to be imported. You can grab the source code of libmygis at: http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/ If you have any questions or need help getting it to work (hey, it's new!) please feel free to drop me a line. Same goes for feature requests. :) Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cole Technical Yahoo - MySQL (Database) Geek Desk: 408 349 5104 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
Hi David, This sounds really cool. One question, though...when you talk about downloading the source code, are you saying your program is for Linux only? As much as I hate Microsoft, I'm still stuck with Windows XP. I developed it on Linux, and haven't ever tried to compile it on Windows, as I don't have a Windows compiler suite handy. It would probably mostly compile on Windows. ;) Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cole Technical Yahoo - MySQL (Database) Geek Desk: 408 349 5104 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
Sweet! Thank you Jeremy! -James On Feb 12, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Jeremy Cole wrote: Hi David, I want to import some data into my database, but it's in an ArcView Shapefile, which I've never worked with. Does anyone know what kind of software I can use to access this data? Actually, I'd probably import it into a spreadsheeet first, then save it as a csv file and import it into my database. I've been working on a library called libmygis which is able to read varoius types of GIS data files (mainly Shapefiles for now). You're in luck. I've recently gotten a working version of mysqlgisimport which is able to take a SHP/SHX/DBF set and turn it into SQL directly to be imported. You can grab the source code of libmygis at: http://jcole.us/software/libmygis/ If you have any questions or need help getting it to work (hey, it's new!) please feel free to drop me a line. Same goes for feature requests. :) Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cole Technical Yahoo - MySQL (Database) Geek Desk: 408 349 5104 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing ArcView Shapefile into a Database
Hi, Sweet! Thank you Jeremy! FYI, make sure you grab the libmygis-0.3.tar.gz or later instead of any other version. I had some silly mistakes that made the DBF file required instead of optional. I've also ported to Mac OS X in 0.3. Regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cole Technical Yahoo - MySQL (Database) Geek Desk: 408 349 5104 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
