Re: Creating Shapefiles from Oracle Spatial

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:22:50 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.09.20.01.27.25.165101@telus.net>

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:57:15 +0000, Andrew Miller interested us by writing:

> I am using Oracle Spatial to store GIS data, and I would like a way to
> create Shapefiles from this database. Does anyone know if this can be
> done?
>
> Oracle can use Java classes, so are there any free Java libraries that can
> create Shapefiles?

Oracle provides a shapefile to spatial converter, safe software provides a bunch of conversion tools, and ESRI can connect directly to Oracle and, iirc, export to shapefile.

Since shapefile is a proporietary ESRI format, I suspect you will need to look to ESRI for Java classes capable of writing shapefiles. Look in the Oracle docco at http://docs.oracle.com for the Oracle side.

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