Sequoia Data Converter ====================== General Information ------------------- Point and Polygon files can be downloaded via: http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/sequoia/benchmark All provided files are compressed. Use guzip to unpack them. Converting Point Data --------------------- Point data can be converted into Secondo's nested list format using the CVS2Secondo converter. Here, just a appropriate configuration file seq-points.cfg is provided. For further information read the documentation aboud the csv2Secondo converter. Converting Polygon Data ----------------------- The converter can process only a single file. If you want to process more than a single file, you have to concat them separated by an empty line. You can use the following command line (within a bash) to do so: for i in *; do echo "" >> all; cat $i >> all; done; echo "" >> all Please substitute the '*' by the filenames which should be concatenated. The converter is a Java program, before you can use it, it must be compiled. This is done by enter 'make' within the converter's directory. After that, the compiler can be called via: java SecPoly <filename> [> <outfilename> ]