geoffleyland/lua-shapefile

Read ESRI Shapefiles in Lua

lua-shapefile - Read ESRI Shapefiles in Lua

1. What?

shapefile format is documented here

2. Why?

Reading geographic data.

3. How?

luarocks install shapefile

then

local sd = require"shapedir"
for shapes, filename in sd.files("path/to/files", "filename-pattern") do
  for shape, data in shapes do
    -- something with the shape and descriptive data
  end
end

4. Requirements

Lua >= 5.1 or LuaJIT >= 2.0.0.

5. Issues

• Incomplete

6. Wishlist

• Tests?
• Documentation?

6. Alternatives

• I don't know of any