Re: Function shaperead for octave

[Alain Foehn]

Hey all,
Thanks for your support and your quick answers this afternoon.
With further investigations, I found a package of functions for Matlab 
working also under Octave having a function m_shaperead that does almost 
what I am looking for. Just outputs are slightly different, but this 
function is of great help. The package is available on

http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html

I think it would be a good thing to have such a function available in a 
"official" package for octave. I don't know the procedure for such an 
addition, mostly with a function written by someone else. I think some 
other functions could also be added to the mapping package of octave and 
would reinforce Octave strength in GIS field (I am a new engineer in a 
Alpine environment research centre and trying to show how Octave could 
be a good replacement to Matlab, so such arguments are welcome...).
I will probably work on it next week a bit. Would you be interested by 
the modified version (I had some warnings of "matlab-looking syntax" or 
something like when I did tests today).
Thanks a lot again and greetings,
Alain