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20050118: gempak to shape

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  • Subject: 20050118: gempak to shape
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:46:02 -0700
Patrick,

GEMPAK has a VG device driver that creates geo-referenced objects that are
used in NMAP2, and can be plotted in gpmap using the VGFILE parameter.
These are used in the product generator and provide a set of primatives as well
as more specific objects which are used in operation products such as 
watches, warnings, sigmets etc. It is possible that one could use that as the 
basis to write something that would store the shapefile polygons, and other 
attributes; 
but none exists at this point in time.

Steve Chiswell
>From: "Patrick L. Francis" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200501182303.j0IN3Rv2021541

>
>after digging through the email archives I notice
>several references of taking basic shapefile maps
>and converting to gempak format... a crazy thought
>is has anyone tried to take a gempak generated
>product and convert to shapefiles to use with analysis?
>
>--patrick
>
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