Posts Tagged ‘e00’

E00Parser, an ActionScript 3 Parser for the Arc/Info Export Topological GIS Format (IndieMaps)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

[Editor’s note: Zach Johnson promo’s his ActionScript 3 class for reading in .e00 GIS files to Flash. Useful for creating cartograms and other graphic representations reliant on topological relationships. Originally posted there Feb. 21, 2009.]

First off, why mess with such a retro format as Arc/Info Export (.e00)?– any code written for this ASCII file type in the last few years has been on how to go from e00 to pretty much anything (especially to the non-topological data format, the shapefile).

Put simply, topological information makes a lot of things possible for the intrepid ActionScripter.

Read more at IndieMaps . . .
Get the code . . .

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GISLook & GISMeta – Preview GIS Data Before Opening It

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

 gis quick look plugin bernie

Using Quick Look in Mac OS X 10.5, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it.

I am proud to announce today that Mr. Genius Bernhard Jenny of the Swiss Institute of Cartography at ETH Zurich has created Quick Look and Spotlight plugins for GIS data for Leopard. Download here.

Use GISLook to browse and preview GIS data in Finder window thumbnails, including Cover Flow and Quick Look windows. Use GISMeta to view the size of GIS raster grid files.

If you haven’t upgraded to 10.5 yet, this is good reason. If you don’t own a Mac, get one and run ArcMap  via Parallels Desktop.

This software is donationware. You can freely use them at no charge. If you use them regularly, it is suggested that you pay a donation of €5 or a more suitable amount.

Supported file types include: 

Vector data

  • ESRI Shape (.shp)
  • E00 ArcInfo Interchange (.e00)
  • ArcInfo Coverage (.adf)

Raster grids, such as digital elevation models or land cover data with a single band

  • BIL (.bil), BIP (.bip) and BSQ (.bsq) with .hdr file
  • ESRI ASCII Grid (.asc)
  • ESRI Binary Grid (.flt with .hdr file)
  • PGM (.pgm)
  • SRTM (.hgt and .dem)
  • Surfer Grid (.grd)
  • USGS DEM (.dem)

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