Comments on: Converting E00 Vector Data To Shapefiles – A Free And Fairly Painless Approach http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:05:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brooke Reams http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-181 Brooke Reams Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:16:46 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-181 Thanks for explaining how to do the conversion and for the free GUI front end for the ogr2ogr utility! If you are looking to do the conversion and you have ArcGIS Desktop, you can use a couple GP tools for this. Check it out here: http://www.geospatialanalyst.com/2009/09/how-to-convert-arcinfo-interchange.html -Brooke Thanks for explaining how to do the conversion and for the free GUI front end for the ogr2ogr utility! If you are looking to do the conversion and you have ArcGIS Desktop, you can use a couple GP tools for this. Check it out here: http://www.geospatialanalyst.com/2009/09/how-to-convert-arcinfo-interchange.html

-Brooke

]]> By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-180 Leszek Pawlowicz Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:48:16 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-180 Try opening the E00 file with a program that can read/display them (like the TatukGIS viewer or fGIS) to see if the file is readable or not. Try opening the E00 file with a program that can read/display them (like the TatukGIS viewer or fGIS) to see if the file is readable or not.

]]> By: Robert L http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-179 Robert L Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:45:59 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-179 I'm having a problem doing the conversion, though I'm hesitant to post a comment asking for help. I think the basis of my question has some educational/informational value though, so here goes: I've been trying to utilize a set of geology data from the USGS. It provides ARC/INFO coverage which I should easily be able to convert to shapefile with ogr2ogr and ArcINFO2Shape GUI. When I run the GUI it cannot find coverage. I'm pretty sure this is because there are no file extensions on the files in dataset folder once I have untarred and unzipped them. What should a set of complete file extensions look like? All that I can discern from google searches is that ARC/INFO coverage is ".adf." The folder for each layer of data contains a file called aat, arc, arx, bnd, cnt, cnx, lab, log, pal, pat, pax, tic, & tol. Adding ".adf" does not work with ArcINFO2Shape GUI. I also know that the "info" folder is important, which is filled with many folders numbered arc000dat, arcoo1nit, ...arc00Xdat, arc00Xnit, etc. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you? I’m having a problem doing the conversion, though I’m hesitant to post a comment asking for help. I think the basis of my question has some educational/informational value though, so here goes:

I’ve been trying to utilize a set of geology data from the USGS. It provides ARC/INFO coverage which I should easily be able to convert to shapefile with ogr2ogr and ArcINFO2Shape GUI. When I run the GUI it cannot find coverage. I’m pretty sure this is because there are no file extensions on the files in dataset folder once I have untarred and unzipped them. What should a set of complete file extensions look like?

All that I can discern from google searches is that ARC/INFO coverage is “.adf.” The folder for each layer of data contains a file called aat, arc, arx, bnd, cnt, cnx, lab, log, pal, pat, pax, tic, & tol. Adding “.adf” does not work with ArcINFO2Shape GUI.

I also know that the “info” folder is important, which is filled with many folders numbered arc000dat, arcoo1nit, …arc00Xdat, arc00Xnit, etc.

Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you?

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]]> By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-176 Leszek Pawlowicz Wed, 14 May 2008 19:29:06 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-176 From an email by John Dougherty: "Import71 does install and run under the Wine emulator. After a bit of debugging I was able to get ArcINFO2Shape GUI to run too. I simply had to get a copy of MSVBVM60.DLL into my wine c:\windows\system32 directory. Import71 created two directories. First I ran Import71 against cdaroads.e00 (from http://www.fs.fed.us/ipnf/eco/yourforest/gis/roads/cdaroads.zip) This produced aat.adf arx.adf dbltic.adf par.adf road.rat arc.adf dblbnd.adf log prj.adf road.sec in a directory I called "71out" and also created a directory "info" containing: arc0000.dat arc0001.dat arc0002.dat arc0003.dat arc0004.dat arc.dir arc0000.nit arc0001.nit arc0002.nit arc0003.nit arc0004.nit ArcINFO2Shape GUI output: cdaroads_ARC.prj cdaroads_ARC.shx cdaroads_ARC.dbf cdaroads_ARC.shp I am just curious to know about Import71 generating the info directory because I recall no mention of it, and share my experience with ArcINFO2Shape GUI running under wine 0.9.58 on Fedora 7. thank you Leszek! John" From an email by John Dougherty:

“Import71 does install and run under the Wine emulator.

After a bit of debugging I was able to get ArcINFO2Shape GUI to run too.
I simply had to get a copy of MSVBVM60.DLL into my wine c:\windows\system32 directory.

Import71 created two directories.

First I ran Import71 against cdaroads.e00 (from http://www.fs.fed.us/ipnf/eco/yourforest/gis/roads/cdaroads.zip)

This produced

aat.adf arx.adf dbltic.adf par.adf road.rat
arc.adf dblbnd.adf log prj.adf road.sec

in a directory I called “71out”
and also created a directory “info” containing:

arc0000.dat arc0001.dat arc0002.dat arc0003.dat arc0004.dat arc.dir
arc0000.nit arc0001.nit arc0002.nit arc0003.nit arc0004.nit

ArcINFO2Shape GUI output:

cdaroads_ARC.prj cdaroads_ARC.shx cdaroads_ARC.dbf cdaroads_ARC.shp

I am just curious to know about Import71 generating the info directory because I recall no mention of it,
and share my experience with ArcINFO2Shape GUI running under wine 0.9.58 on Fedora 7.

thank you Leszek!

John”

]]> By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-175 Leszek Pawlowicz Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:29:02 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-175 Nuts - you mean I gotta change all those references ? ;-)<br /><br />I've heard it referred to as ArcView coverages, ArcInfo coverages, even ArcGIS coverages. I picked one, but looks like I picked the wrong one. I'll revise the post (and the utility) to reflect that. Thanks for the clarification. Nuts – you mean I gotta change all those references ? ;-)

I’ve heard it referred to as ArcView coverages, ArcInfo coverages, even ArcGIS coverages. I picked one, but looks like I picked the wrong one. I’ll revise the post (and the utility) to reflect that. Thanks for the clarification.

]]> By: Android http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach/comment-page-1#comment-174 Android Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:04:48 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=26#comment-174 Leszek:<br />Great blog and so far lots of worthwhile information about how to get by on the cheap.<br /><br />A point of usage - rather than say "ArcView coverages" it would be more accurate and understandable if they were refered to as "ArcINFO coverages". ArcView introduced the shapefile and shapefiles (and Avenue) were the AV language - AV could display covers, but it wasn't very good at doing anything else with them.<br /><br />The "71" in the utility name refers to the ArcINFO release (now sometimes refered to as "ArcGIS workstation") - version 7.1 - when the utility was explicitly released by ESRI.<br /><br />Cheers and keep up the good work. Leszek:
Great blog and so far lots of worthwhile information about how to get by on the cheap.

A point of usage – rather than say “ArcView coverages” it would be more accurate and understandable if they were refered to as “ArcINFO coverages”. ArcView introduced the shapefile and shapefiles (and Avenue) were the AV language – AV could display covers, but it wasn’t very good at doing anything else with them.

The “71″ in the utility name refers to the ArcINFO release (now sometimes refered to as “ArcGIS workstation”) – version 7.1 – when the utility was explicitly released by ESRI.

Cheers and keep up the good work.

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