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nodangles.net provides some hopefully useful tools in the field of geoinformation. Currently these tools are Gen2shp and ShapeIT. Both may be used for free.
Gen2shp
Gen2shp (or Generate to shape) converts 2D or 3D ASCII data from one or more text files to one or more shapefiles. The input text files must be in the ESRI generate file format.
Gen2shp is an extension to ArcView3. Since it’s first release in 1998 thousands of downloads prove it to be one of the most popular scripts at ESRI’s ArcScripts.
ShapeIT
ShapeIT is a Windows application to create shapefiles from text files in a way similar to Gen2shp. The main difference from Gen2shp is that ShapeIT runs all by itself. In other words, ShapeIT does not depend on GIS software such as ArcView3 or ArcGIS.
Another advantage of ShapeIT is that ShapeIT allows you to include attribute data in the conversion from text to shapefile.