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ESRI Shapefiles [message #49227] Wed, 05 July 2006 16:50
David Bowman is currently offline  David Bowman
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Dear all,

I have an ESRI shapefile containing the surface trace of an active
fault. I need to extract the lat/lon from this file for use in IDL.
Sounds easy, right? Not so much... (at least for me)

I know IDL includes a whole suite of programs that supposedly read and
manipulate GIS files, but I've found the documentation to be shockingly
confusing, even by RSI's standards.

Can anybody point me to a simple explanation/procedure/resource? Small
words would be appreciated.

In my career there have been two enormous time-sinks that I've managed
to avoid: ARC/Info and object-oriented programming. My greatest fear
is that I've finally come across a need for both of them. I would be
eternally grateful for any help avoiding that horrible fate.

Cheers!
David Bowman

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