[Paraview] Shapefiles to Paraview (or VTK) format

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Hi Aashish,

Great! My big thanks for sharing your reader. I will check and
hopefully I should be able to wrap the reader as a ParaView plugin.

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: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:20:05 -0400

> Hi Takuya,
> 
> Instead of sending it over the email I decided to put it over
> gitorious so that it could be maintained.
> 
> Checkout source code from here:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/vtkgis_vector_reader
> 
> The repository has a test program as well that could be used to view a
> shape file or write shape file gdal layers as vtk files. This test
> program won't work when you don't have a projection information in the
> shape file but you can still look at the test code to get an idea on
> how to convert the data into vtk files.
> 
> If you have any questions or if you find any bugs please let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Sure. I will attach the reader header and source in my next email (by
>> the end of the day).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Takuya OSHIMA
>> <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> 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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