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19990901: Shapefile to GEMPAK conversion

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  • Subject: 19990901: Shapefile to GEMPAK conversion
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:09:18 -0600
Don,

I'm back from vacation after teaching our Gempak workshop.

I put together a tar file at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/contrib/readshape.tar.gz

the tarfile includes a program readshape.c which will read in a
shapefile and associated shape DBF file and dump the data to
a gempak ascii file which can then be converted with ssfgsf to
a gempak binary map file.

I enclosed an AWIPS county data base data set as an example of how to
convert the file (see steps iin README file).

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Donald Frank wrote:

> Steve Chiswell,
> 
> About a month or two ago we had some email traffic between us about a
> conversion program you wrote for reading ARCVIEW Shapefiles into GEMPAK map
> files. Do you have the time to send me your work? I need to get tweb routes
> and other aviation route charts into GEMPAK for an upcoming project here at
> the Aviation Weather Center.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Don Frank
> 
> Donald R. Frank
> Meteorological Applications Engineer
> RDC - Aviation Weather Center
> 7220 NW 101st Terrace, Room 115
> Kansas City, MO  64153-2371
> address@hidden
> (816) 584-7256
> 
>