I'm looking for a way to export portions of a map as geodata (shape files or geoTiff) that can be read by a GIS program such as ArcGIS or Qgis. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, and shoutout to Dean! I'm a big fan
Joe
Is there a way to export shape files or GeoTiffs?
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Joe LeMonnier
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Re: Is there a way to export shape files or GeoTiffs?
Hello Joe. Thanks for the kind words.
Unfortunately, neither Shapefile nor GeoTIFF are supported formats for export. There are some projections and parameterizations where that could work, but more generally, Geocart works with a huge number of projections (and parameterizations of projections) that no consumer of GeoTIFF or Shapefile supports.This means that, in many cases, Geocart would emit files in those formats that cannot be read.
I think the best thing I could do in the future would be to build GDAL into Geocart and treat its projections separately, in a sense, so that we could have that kind of interoperability. That’s not going to happen any time soon.
Hope it’s not too much of a problem.
— daan
Unfortunately, neither Shapefile nor GeoTIFF are supported formats for export. There are some projections and parameterizations where that could work, but more generally, Geocart works with a huge number of projections (and parameterizations of projections) that no consumer of GeoTIFF or Shapefile supports.This means that, in many cases, Geocart would emit files in those formats that cannot be read.
I think the best thing I could do in the future would be to build GDAL into Geocart and treat its projections separately, in a sense, so that we could have that kind of interoperability. That’s not going to happen any time soon.
Hope it’s not too much of a problem.
— daan