Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804021120580.28925@reclus.nhh.no>
Date: 2008-04-02T09:26:33Z
From: Roger Bivand
Subject: mdf files
In-Reply-To: <47F34D6C.70807@ija.csic.es>
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> Has anyone imported mdf files from IMPS4.1
> (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/imps/index.html) or
> know of any tool for this?
>
> I've been browsing the files, writing the R function
> does not seem too
> difficult but wanted to make sure that the tool
> does not exist yet.
Not as far as I know. Since both the *.map and the *.mdf are ASCII, it
certainly looks possible, and seems to fit into the Polygons/Polygon
object structure well. Would you consider contributing an interface tool
to maptools?
Roger
>
> Thanks
>
> Agus
>
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Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no