Utilizing GIS Data the Easy Way
Posted by Jason Hickey on 9th November 2006
James has been dropping some not-so-subtle hints that some of us need to add some content to this site. I see that Dana listened, but in my defense, I’ve been on the road all week. 3 hotels in 3 nights and a whirlwind tour of Northeast Alabama and Eastern Tennessee has kept me busy, and not in the blogging mood.
However, I did run into a very interesting question at a customer site. I was almost sure that I could accomplish the task that he was requesting, but I wanted data to play with before I committed to anything. He provided me with exactly what I needed so I jumped right in and started working. How many of you have received contours from a GIS application? Maybe it’s a SHP file from an ESRI application or some other sort of data. I’ve got a ton of contours on a drawing that are polylines with a 0 elevation, so they’re useless to me in relation to creating a surface. Flat surface, huh? But if I do a bit of inquiring on these polylines, I see that there’s object data assigned to these polylines, and one part of that object data seems to be a contour elevation. Believe it or not, I’ve got exactly what I need to create a workable surface. Want to learn how? Read on….
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