[Mapserver-west] GML conversion to Shape

[Tyler Mitchell]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 15:33, Melton, Alvin R ILMB:EX wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not a GIS tech person, however, I am a project analyst for a large
> government project (see below). Built into the application is GML export.
>
> Is there a simple tool to convert GML to a shape file... other than FME?
> Something simple, shareware simple...
>
> Thanks for any help.

Hi Melvin, fancy meeting you here - welcome.  There is definitely a simple, 
free, tool for converting GML (v2) to shape files (as well as a handful of 
other formats), very similar to FME.  The tool I use for this is called 
ogr2ogr - it is part of the command line utilities included with FWTools 
(http://fwtools.maptools.org).  You can get more information about the OGR 
tools/libraries as well at: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ and some examples are 
available (albeit the inverse of what you need) at: 
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_gml.html

Several of us on this list use these tools - so fire away if you have any 
questions.  I also assume that Bruce Tonkin (Infrastructure Management 
Services, also on this list) might be familiar with some open source tools - 
he is a bit physically closer to home for you.

Take care,
Tyler Mitchell