20020318: converting shapefile to gempak

Clint,

I have an updated shape.tar.gz file in
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/contrib/shape.tar.gz

Don't know if it will have any more luch, but I did revamp some
of the code. The main thing to look at is the NDEX_SIZE definition
for the ndex[] array which is currently set to 600 parts of
the message. If this is a problem, the will write out a message.

See the README file inside. I removed the -g flag. That is the default format.

Chiz


>From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200203181934.g2IJYMa22374

>Chiz,
>
>I grabbed a shapefile of time zone boundaries from USGS 
>(http://www.nationalatlas.gov/timeznm.html) and am trying to convert
>it to gempak format.  I grabbed your readshape.tar.gz to start the 
>process, but can't get beyond it core dumping.  Since I'm not a C 
>programmer, I'm not sure how to go about figuring this one out.  I'm 
>guessing that it's exceeding an array boundary (the usual culprit) 
>and the number of values (141524) seems rather large for a simple
>boundary.
>
>
>purga% ../software/readshape -g timeznp020.shp timeznp020.dbf > ../timezone.da
> t
>Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
>purga% !head
>head ../timezone.dat
>141524                 54.766   71.398 -168.126 -129.991   71.177 -156.017
>   71.179 -156.012   71.183 -156.000   71.186 -155.990   71.189 -155.982
>   71.191 -155.969   71.193 -155.961   71.197 -155.957   71.202 -155.956
>   71.207 -155.953   71.214 -155.950   71.219 -155.940   71.222 -155.931
>   71.222 -155.926   71.221 -155.922   71.218 -155.919   71.211 -155.911
>   71.207 -155.906   71.203 -155.897   71.200 -155.893   71.199 -155.890
>   71.198 -155.893   71.198 -155.903   71.195 -155.907   71.191 -155.902
>   71.188 -155.898   71.187 -155.894   71.186 -155.886   71.185 -155.880
>   71.186 -155.876   71.187 -155.876   71.188 -155.875   71.192 -155.874
>   71.193 -155.877   71.195 -155.881   71.196 -155.879   71.196 -155.874
>purga% 
>
>Any pointers?
>Clint
>
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>Clinton M. Rowe
>Associate Professor 
>Meteorology/Climatology Program                  phone:(402)472-1946
>Department of Geosciences                          fax:(402)472-4917
>University of Nebraska-Lincoln                        address@hidden
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