Re: [OpenMap Users] Re: Vmap2shape help.

Cool Don... Great to know its working again. I will look at the output
when I get a chance... if its good enough you could filter the shape
files it makes. By "Good Enough" I mean, does ti pass the attributes to
the shapefiles.

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:27, Don Dietrick wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I believe this problem has been resolved in 4.5.4. It worked for me.
>
> Keith is right, however, in that the VPF components don't really let
> you use attribute data to filer out features more appropriately for
> scale or purpose.
>
> - Don
>
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:31 AM, Keith Baker wrote:
>
> > I did not figure this out in Openmap. As far as I can tell openmaps
> > VPF
> > layer is lacking a lot of functionality you'd want. After you select
> > the coverage etc you still often want to prune the data set. For
> > example the political boundary layer contains both states (1st order)
> > and countries... These should be rendered differently in most cases...
> > I never figured out how to get this to happen in Openmaps VPF layer...
> > so I am guessing that the conversion tools have the same limits though
> > I
> > never got very far with them due to lack of docs.
> >
> > I am using the NIMA muse tools. I tried a quick and dirty hack to get
> > them on Linux I got it compiling, but not working. I have access to a
> > few Suns so I decided to just run the binaries. These tools are doing
> > exactly what I want. If you need any help on em give a shout.
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 06:27, Dave Hallam wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was wondering if this had been sorted out. I'm trying to do the
> >> same thing with:
> >>
> >> java com.bbn.openmap.layer.vpf.VMAP2Shape -props
> >> /home/hallam/openmap.properties -prefix vmapRoads roads.shp
> >>
> >> It creates a 100 byte file called roads.shp but crashes in exactly
> >> the same way as Keith Baker descibed in
> >> http://openmap.bbn.com/mailArchives/openmap-users/2002-09/1083.html.
> >>
> >> I get the same error message:
> >> .......
> >>> adjusting bounds
> >>> from min: ESRIPoint[0.000000,0.000000]
> >>> to min: null
> >>> from max: ESRIPoint[0.000000,0.000000]
> >>> to max: null
> >>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> >>> at com.bbn.openmap.layer.shape.ShapeUtils.writePoint(Unknown
> >> Source)
> >>> at com.bbn.openmap.layer.shape.ShapeUtils.writeBox(Unknown Source)
> >>> at com.bbn.openmap.layer.shape.ShapeFile.verify(Unknown Source)
> >>> at com.bbn.openmap.layer.vpf.VMAP2Shape.writeShapeFile(Unknown
> >> Source)
> >>> at com.bbn.openmap.layer.vpf.VMAP2Shape.main(Unknown Source)
> >>
> >> Can anyone help, please? I'm running JDK1.4 and OM 4.5.3 on RH Linux
> >> 7.2.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
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