[Antelope] polygon data storage format

[Gabe Plank]

Thanks Niko. It would be excellent to have xy2polygon in the perlpoly 
interface. I didn't see the actual datafile format spec in any of the 
man pages.

-Gabe

Nikolaus Horn wrote:
> Hi Gabe,
> 
> there is acontributed program, xy2polygon that could do the conversion 
> for you.
> There is a manpage for the polygon schema, polygon1.2(5) that explains 
> the storage format, at least this was my intention when I wrote it.
> If your code really needs to be in Perl, I could add the functionality 
> to save polygons to perlpolygon. Otherwise I would recomment to use either
> xy2polygon directly or to modify it for your needs.
> 
> Additionally I can offer some matlab extension to read/write polygons.
> 
> Niko
> 
> Am 04.11.2008 um 21:37 schrieb Gabe Plank:
> 
>> Hello-
>>
>> We have polygon (lon,lat) vertices in text files and I am writing a 
>> PERL script to convert them to Datascope polygon1.2 tables.
>>
>> I have not been able to find an example of the polygon data storage 
>> format for the file specified by polygon.dfile. Is it a 
>> comma-separated list of (ftype) X,Y values? Binary or ASCII?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> // Gabe Plank
>> // Programmer/Analyst, Seismic Network
>> // Seismology Department
>> // University of Nevada, Reno
>>
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// Gabe Plank
// Programmer/Analyst, Seismic Network
// Seismology Department
// University of Nevada, Reno