On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:19:59AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > > > I'm certainly no expert, but I think in the contrib directory there > > are some tools to build shapefiles for you. shapefile is a binary > > format, so it would be something like "use perl to feed the shapefile > > builder executable" instead of using perl to build the file > > directly. At least, that's what seems easiest to me. > > There's also a Python script, reworked by Tom a bit, which creates > Xastir-usable polygon shapefiles from Tiger/Line data: > "xastir/scripts/Xastir_tigerpoly.py"
Yeah, but that's way more complex than one would want for this purpose. One could, however, find in that script some hints on how to generate shapefiles non-OGR datasources within Python if one is motivated enough. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir