{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21/events","html_url":"https://github.com/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21","id":65905291,"number":21,"title":"Relocate shapefile writer?","user":{"login":"langevin-usgs","id":3372403,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3372403?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs","html_url":"https://github.com/langevin-usgs","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/langevin-usgs/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-04-02T11:15:47Z","updated_at":"2015-04-02T13:45:28Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Jeremy, I like the new shapefile writer.  It looks great.  The ability to add attributes is really slick.  I'm wondering, though, if we shouldn't create a new 'export' submodule, and put it in there instead.  That way we can plan for \"to VTK\", \"to_NetCDF\", and anything else we want to support.  I know the map object has those rotated and offset coordinates, but maybe we need to generalize that somehow?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/comments/88907455","html_url":"https://github.com/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21#issuecomment-88907455","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/modflowpy/flopy/issues/21","id":88907455,"user":{"login":"jtwhite79","id":1770912,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1770912?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79","html_url":"https://github.com/jtwhite79","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jtwhite79/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-02T13:45:28Z","updated_at":"2015-04-02T13:45:28Z","body":"Chris - That was a quick hack yesterday because I needed that shapefile - very shortsighted.  I think we do need to generalize the spatial components more - that would open up a lot of functionality for things like a generalized exporter,  the PEST utilities (geostatistics mostly), as well as better interaction with codes like Qgridder.  \r\n\r\nJust some more shortsighted thoughts: How about a spatial info class that we can attach as an optional attribute to the discretization package?  I think it makes sense to be part of ```DIS```\r\n\r\nAlexandre - Qgridder looks pretty cool and some stronger bindings between flopy and qgis would really help me (and others).  Do you have any thoughts about generalizing the spatial info part of ```ModelMap```?"}}