Re: arcview shapefiles

Hi Michael,

I meant to respond to this yesterday, but got swept up in a user
problem.

NCL currently doesn't have any way to deal with shapefiles, but it is
a hot topic for the developers right now.

The classic NetCDF model (NetCDF-3), which NCL is based on, is not a
good model for shapefiles given their structure. The NetCDF-4 model is
a better fit, but NCL doesn't fully support this yet.

We will continue to discuss this and keep folks posted.

Meanwhile, I tried to google this topic, but mostly, it seems there
netcdf-to-shapefiles applications, rather than the other way around.

Does anybody else have some suggestions for Michael?

--Mary

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Michael Notaro wrote:

> I am interested in using the arcview shapefiles
> included on this website:
> http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/
>
> Is there any way in NCL to read them or convert them
> to another format, like netcdf, ascii, etc?
>
> I noticed that there was a similar email like this a couple
> of years ago to ncl-talk with a suggestion to use python
> but I am not familiar with python. Perhaps something new
> has been added to NCL since then.
>
> Michael
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