Export formats

[Rowena Larkins]

I export to shape"files" - more a collection of interrelated files, it is what I send to various govt departments in Australia, for their records. ESRI seems to be the GIS of choice here.
Yes, the shapefile format is ugly, and yes it could be improved upon (it uses dBase format); but it is ubiquitous and hence a defacto standard.

> it could be done as a separate tool, couldn't it?
I use Therion to produce these shape"files" tho; Therion takes as one input a file almost the same format as servex.

> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 07:05:14 +0100
> From: olly at survex.com
> To: survex at survex.com
> Subject: Re: Export formats
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:05:32PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > On 2016-06-13 02:41 +0000, Erin Lynch wrote:
> > > [shapefile export]
> >
> > That's a good point. Better tools for GIS interworking in general
> > should be a consideration. Shapefile is a horrible format (have you
> > read the spec? (presumably due to decades of baggage)) but it is
> > well-documented and open, and shapelib exists for reading/writing it
> > (and is packaged in debian) which hopefully hides the ugliness.
> 
> Yes, shape files seem a sensible option for export to GIS.  I've created
> a ticket for that:
> 
> https://trac.survex.com/ticket/87
> 
> > When I used qgis it seemed like a good thing would be if survex
> > provided some way to serve cave data as OWS/WCS/WFS/WMS layers. I
> > don't know what the best way to implement this is. Maybe servers exist
> > already and we just need to export vectors or rasters in suitable
> > ways.
> 
> I'm not seeing benefits to integrating that into Survex - even if
> there's nothing you can import existing data into, it could be done as a
> separate tool, couldn't it?
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
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