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Shapefile and Gempak Again.

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  • Subject: Shapefile and Gempak Again.
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:12:36 -0400



Steve,

I hate to keep bothering you, but I have been trying for several weeks,
have had 3 different GIS people send me several different
types of shapefiles. They convert in WXP but when I try do the final
conversion to make a Gempak map the program
core dumps. I think it would be a benefit to the whole Gempak community if
we could document exactly what format
is needed. I am sure there are others that will have the need to create
there own custom maps.

I am attaching the latest files from our GIS guys that's supposed to be
LAT/LON but still core dumps.  Can you take
a few minutes and look into this and let me know what I need to tell the
GIS people in order to get the exact
format ssfgsf needs?

Thanks in advance....

[nawips@linux programs]$ ssfgsf
 Enter name of SSF map file to be converted:
Catawba Basin
 Enter name of GSF map file to be created:
Catawba Basin.gsf
  Enter data subset area:
    MINLAT;MINLON;MAXLAT;MAXLON
    Missing numbers imply all data in that direction.
 Data subset area:  -90. -180.  90.  180.
fmt: read unexpected character
apparent state: unit 11 named Catawba Basin
last format: (I4,14X,6F9.3,8X,/,(8F9.3,8X))
lately reading sequential formatted external IO
Abort (core dumped)(See attached file: Catawba River Basin
Lat-Long_region.dbf)(See attached file: Catawba River Basin
Lat-Long_region.shp)(See attached file: Catawba River Basin
Lat-Long_region.shx)

Attachment: Catawba River Basin Lat-Long_region.dbf
Description: Lotus Approach

Attachment: Catawba River Basin Lat-Long_region.shp
Description: Binary data

Attachment: Catawba River Basin Lat-Long_region.shx
Description: Binary data