How I can convert a shape file (GIS) to text?
or, How I can extract the information in a shape file?
How I can convert a shape file (GIS) to text? or, How I can
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How I can convert a shape file (GIS) to text?
or, How I can extract the information in a shape file?
If you are willing to write some code (and you will probably need to anyway as there is quite a bit of information in a shapefile, not all of it of interest for any given application) check out shapelib. It has bindings to many scripting languages. It also builds dbfdump which is an executable for dumpint the dbffiles and shpdump that dumps the shp files.
Also of interest if you program in R is the maptools package.