[Paraview] Shapefiles to Paraview (or VTK) format

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Hi Aashish,

Would be great for me too if your reader may be shared (thus we have
more options for importing Shapefiles)!

Takuya

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: Aashish Chaudhary <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Shapefiles to Paraview (or VTK) format
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:29:22 -0400

> Hi Lester,
> 
> I have a Shapefile reader (actually a vector format reader) for VTK.
> You would have to write a program to use it (I can send a sample app
> too). It will require VTK and GDAL.
> 
> I can send you the code in my next email if you are interested.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Robert Maynard
> <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
>> It should be noted that the implementation in ParaViewGeo is LGPL not BSD.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just to share my finding, ParaViewGeo has a Shapefile reader plugin.
>>> http://paraviewgeo.mirarco.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>>
>>> Several warnings are issued when I tried to compile the plugin in
>>> conjunction with the latest git master of PV. Besides I don't know if
>>> it is supposed to be a complete implementation, but as far as I tested
>>> importing geometry worked.
>>>
>>> Takuya
>>>
>>> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
>>> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
>>> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Lester Anderson <lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Paraview] Shapefiles to Paraview (or VTK) format
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:19:24 +0000
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Hello
>>> >
>>> > Is there an easy way to get Shapefile data from ArcGIS into Paraview? It
>>> > is an important file format and one which is widely used so it would be
>>> > great if there was a method of importing this. As I see it, one has to
>>> > somehow convert the format to a VTK structure (vector-based), not sure of
>>> > the easiest solution.
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestions?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > Lester
>>> >
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