Would be an interesting project..
An old link to possibly still useful code:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3317


Btw the shapefile support, from the ESRI spec, was done by me and is still 
available on http://www.squeaksource.com/@CUT95k_uXmPU4uXY/HCmgtrop. I use it 
daily. I may have some fixes/additions, but in general the code as provided 
works well (I suppose the code at smalltalkhub is still mostly the same). Some 
shapefile formats are still missing, mostly because I never encountered them..
To read a complete shapefile one also needs to read dbf files. This was another 
substantial effort http://www.squeaksource.com/@Y4HhnL90iyA2TmAb/X0sPqshM; 
luckily  there was an older implementation.available to build upon.
Not sure whether nowadays there are other ways to read/write files old DBASE 
format files...

Cheers,

Hans Baveco




From: Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com>
Sent: donderdag 4 juni 2020 5:32
To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
Subject: [Pharo-users] GIS support for Pharo

Dear all,

there was already some discussion in the list about GIS support for Pharo 
previously.

Working on CORMAS multi-agent simulation platform: 
https://github.com/cormas/cormas some developers feel the need to have more GIS 
support for Pharo.

I know of existing GIS software:
- GeoJSON by Zweidenker: https://github.com/zweidenker/GeoJSON
- ESRI ascii raster, done by Stephane recently: 
https://github.com/Ducasse/ESRI-ASCII-Raster
- shapefile support by Hernan: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/Shapes
(to be moved to github)
- I found this project also: http://www.squeaksource.com/gekon.html

I know that Etienne Delay is also interested by GIS support and propose to 
implement OpenGIS model support: https://github.com/cormas/cormas/issues/139

Can we try to unite and maybe create a pharo-GIS organization on github to 
federate our efforts?

Cheers,
--
Serge Stinckwic
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https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich

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