h12w/go-shapefile

Go binding to the shapefile library

go-shapefile

Go binding to the shapefile library.

About shapefile

The Esri shapefile, or simply a shapefile, is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system software.

ESRI Shapefile Technical Description: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf

Dependencies

Shapefile C Library: http://shapelib.maptools.org

For Ubuntu Linux, install with:

apt-get install shapelib

For OS X, install with:

brew install shapelib

Installation

go get -u github.com/hailiang/go-shapefile

Example usage

See examples/example.go for basic example usage to load a .shp file (and its .dbf companian file).

go run examples/example.go map/bou2_4p.shp