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Hi Hal Finkel, Thank you for your answer. I finally succeed to transform my data. As you told me I use gdal-ogr to create the final ShapeFile. Regards Arnaud On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Hal Finkel <hal.finkel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arnaud, > > Take a look at the GDAL OGR library: > > http://www.gdal.org/ > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ > > which has python bindings. This link has installation instructions and > links to a python-based tutorial: > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInPython > > -Hal > > Arnaud Vandecasteele wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to know if it's possible to read data from a netcdf file and >> export it into a EsriShapefile File. The ShapeFile i a common file format in >> the GIS World. >> I'm trying to get the latitude, longitude and a determinate value of a >> netcdf file. But I don't know exactly how to do it. >> I succeed to open and read a netcdf file in python but i don't know how to >> export the data. >> Here is my simple script : >> >> import Scientific.IO.NetCDF as nc >> from Numeric import * >> import sys >> >> try : >> ncFile = nc.NetCDFFile("tos_O1_2001- >> 2002.nc <http://2002.nc>","r") >> >> except : >> print "can't open the file" >> sys.exit(1) >> >> try : >> print "################# Dimensions #################" >> print ncFile.dimensions.keys() >> >> print "################# Variables #################" >> print ncFile.variables.keys() >> #return ['time_bnds', 'lat_bnds', 'lon', 'lon_bnds', 'time', 'lat', >> 'tos' >> >> print "################# Var Dim #################" >> tos = ncFile.variables["tos"] >> print tos.dimensions >> #return : ('time', 'lat', 'lon') >> >> >> tosValue = tos.getValue() >> >> except : >> ncFile.close() >> >> >> I also tried to use the *ncdump* and *ncks* utilities and I've been able >> to get a TXT file of the data but i can't use directly to transform them in >> shapefile. >> >> Do you know how I could do that? >> >> >> Best regards >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> netcdf-hdf mailing list >> netcdf-hdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >> > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Van De Casteele Arnaud Mines Paris Tech - CRC Sophia-Antipolis 0698 24 25 29 SIG - WebMapping - SOLAP - BI Web Site : http://geotribu.net/
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