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 Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Steffen, >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. [Chandra ] this is really cool news for me. >But Shape files are vector >data. >The process to convert from

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

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

2009-06-17 Thread Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Hi, I was looking for a converter tool to convert a given hdf5 file (.mh5) to esri shape-files(.shp) and vice versa. Does anyone has any idea about the same? Does anyone see any utility in developing this(if it doesn't exists already somewhere)? Thanks, Chandra **