GIS Re: Plot Shapefile

[Lev Tarasov <lev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi;
There is a solid open-source GIS package available : GRASS
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
which I would highly recommend. Their web-site also includes
tutorials/docs/... You could either plot directly from GRASS,
or you could convert the shapefiles (or any other standard
GIS format) to gridded ascii data for use by ferret (raster data
in GIS lingo).

Lev Tarasov -   Dept of Physics, University of Toronto,
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Julien Demaria wrote:

> Is it possible to translate the shapefiles into ASCII format (one feature by 
> line for example), and read and plot it line-by-line with Ferret ?
> Maybe it's a bad idea...
>
> Julien
>
> At 18:28 29/11/2004, you wrote:
> > Julien,
> >
> > Ferret is not a GIS system and does not know how to read or plot ESRI 
> > shapefiles.  Ferret reads gridded data files (as opposed to vector based 
> > data) in the NetCDF or OPeNDAP formats.
> >
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> >
> > Julien Demaria wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I try to plot ESRI shapefiles with Ferret ; is there a simple way to do 
> > > this ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for help,
> > >
> > > Julien