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| 08:56:14 | TylerM: | anyone familiar with gpsbabel's shapefile output support? someone is asking me for a library for gps->gis and wondering if this is it |
| 09:00:50 | TylerM: | it spits out a shx and shp file but alas, no dbf |
| 09:03:21 | crschmidt: | generally GPS data doesn't have attributes that you would need in a .dbf |
| 09:03:28 | crschmidt: | what were you imagining such a dbf file would contain? |
| 09:03:51 | TylerM: | yeah i don't really care, but the file is broken without it |
| 09:04:04 | TylerM: | either way, the output i get is junk.. so no matter |
| 09:04:50 | TylerM: | it says "crude support for shapefile".. heh to be sure |
| 09:06:29 | crschmidt: | TylerM: hm, i'm pretty sure shapefiles don't require a .dbf file to work; at the very least, OGR has support for shapefiles with no corresponding .dbf |
| 09:06:35 | crschmidt: | TylerM: but if it's busted, it's busted : ) |
| 09:06:59 | TylerM: | hmm ok.. i think i'd need waypoint attributes anyway |
| 09:07:37 | crschmidt: | ah, okay |
| 09:07:53 | crschmidt: | most GPX -> Shapefile tranlsation stuff I've seen doesn't maintain any kind of attributes |
| 09:07:59 | crschmidt: | but it's usually handling tracks |
| 09:08:01 | crschmidt: | not waypoints |
| 09:08:22 | crschmidt: | did the GDAL GPX driver not do what you wanted it to? |
| 09:09:29 | TylerM: | yeah i'll push him toward OGR |
| 09:10:05 | TylerM: | i can do it in python myself already, but was hoping for a simpler solution for gps device directly to shapefile |
| 09:10:20 | TylerM: | But seems he'll have to do that reading part separately |
| 09:11:01 | TylerM: | or just give in and tell him to use kml instead ; ) since gpsbabel supports it better |
| 09:26:36 | crschmidt: | yeah, KML might be a reasonable solution |
| 09:28:06 | wildintellect: | KML would better anyways to ensure the date/time stays a date/time |
| 20:27:05 | TylerM: | @seen darkblue_b |
| 20:27:05 | sigq: | TylerM: darkblue_b was last seen in #osgeo 3 days, 4 hours, 36 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <darkblue_B> fyi |