G.I.S to CAD question. Anyone help?

linea · 14 Aug 2012, 10:56

Hi All
Sorry about the totally un-sketchupness of this question but I can't find any help anywhere else so I thought I'd ask here.

Does anybody know anything about G.I.S software?
I need to convert some free Ordnance Survey district maps that are in a tab.vector format to dwg or dxf so that I can use them in CAD. I know virtually nothing about G.I.S, I'm using a free program called Quantum GIS that opens the tab maps and they look beautiful but I can't do a lot with them as I don't really understand the software.

Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.

By the way free Ordnance survey district maps available here: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

jon

charly2008 · 14 Aug 2012, 12:26

Hi Jon,

I'm not a GIS specialist. But sometimes I use Global Mapper to save a terrain in DXF. There is also a trial version that you should try.

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(www.bluemarblegeo.com)

Charly

linea · 14 Aug 2012, 13:20

Thanks Charly

I'll try that

jon

linea · 14 Aug 2012, 19:30

Without wanting to speak too soon I may have 70% sorted this out by using a free software program called dxfauthor that converts GIS shapefiles (Shp.) to dxf. Seems to work well on everything but the largest files.

I'm going to try opening the others with the Google / Trimble Shapefile (*.shp) Importer.

sepo · 17 Aug 2012, 14:27

where can you actually download the maps as it seems there is no link to actual maps...or I can't find them