Re: [gdal-dev] hdf5 to esri shape-file converter

2009-06-17 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Chandra, > [Chandra ] I have hdf files holding vector data only(basically > longitude, latitude, speed etc). > Do you think that it will easier now to convert it to shape files? Most probably, because you can skip the Vectorization. You could use CSV as an intermediate format: * Create a CSV

Re: [gdal-dev] hdf5 to esri shape-file converter

2009-06-17 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Chandra, > I was looking for a converter tool to convert a given hdf5 file (.mh5) to > esri shape-files(.shp) and vice versa. GDAL supports reading of HDF5 raster data. But Shape files are vector data. The process to convert from raster to vector data is called Vectorization. And Vectorization