Would be an interesting project..

An old link to possibly still useful code:

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.stinckwich@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

https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich