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Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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Charles Hickman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:49:02 -0400
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:15:06 -0500
From: Charles Hickman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: re: GIS File Format Descriptions
Sender: Charles Hickman <[log in to unmask]>

Ted,

The GIS Data Depot has brief text for major GIS formats at
   http://www.gisdatadepot.com/helpdesk/formats.html

Another good, but longer, source is at
   http://www.diffuse.org/gis.html

Also see the following for more on GIS, graphics, and image formats:

   http://gis.about.com/science/gis/msub13.htm
   http://www.geocities.com/~vmushinskiy/fformats/fformats.htm
   http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/

   http://www.wotsit.org/
   http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=gis

   http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/
   http://www.tenlinks.com/MapGIS/reference/format.htm
   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/
   http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index.html

   http://www.ora.com/centers/gff/index.htm
   http://come.to/fileformat
   http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~ratib/code/redirect.cgi
   ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/misc/file.formats/graphics.formats/

   http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/research/groups/graphics_and_ip/
   graphics.formats/graphics_formats.html

        Hope this helps,
        Charley

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> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:29:39 -0400
> From: Ted Florence <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: GIS File Format Descriptions
>
> Does anyone know a link to a place that has a brief
> writeup on all the major GIS file formats.  What I
> am looking for is a paragraph or two describing each
> format.  Any ideas?
> --
> Ted Florence
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