{"id":197,"date":"2009-02-18T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2018-04-21T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:27:17","slug":"file-format-caos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/file-format-caos\/","title":{"rendered":"File Format Caos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\">ESRI <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\">Autodesk<\/a>, what about using a common open source file format instead of your own formats?<\/p>\n<p>That you simplify the \u00a0interoperability and make everything more simples&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For instance: how to convert a DWG file to an ESRI SHP shapefile?\u00a0Well, first idea: google it, download a trial (you won&#8217;t find it for free&#8230;) and buy it or crack it :P<\/p>\n<p>But, what happens when you have a DWG file with password (encrypreted file)? You won&#8217;t have a choice&#8230; \u00a0Use Autodesk first to remove the password and then import the file using ArcCatalog. If you want to do it automatically (using a batch), you&#8217;ll require some<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guthcad.com\/dwgconvert.htm\"> more advanced tools<\/a>, and paid, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, ESRI and Autodesk, what about using a common open source file format instead of your own formats? That you simplify the \u00a0interoperability and make everything more simples&#8230; For instance: how to convert a DWG file to an ESRI SHP shapefile?\u00a0Well, first idea: google it, download a trial (you won&#8217;t find it for free&#8230;) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}