rebkwok/shapefile-tools

Some (very) basic shapefile utilities. Currently requires shapefiles to be unzipped and located in the same repo as the scripts.

read_shp.py

python read_shp.py <source-dir> -g <index of feature to display>

Reads a shapefile and prints information about its CRS, number of features etc, and a table of properties.

source-dir: an unzipped shapefile folder; assumes that all files in the folder have the same name as the folder.

-g / --geometry-index: Optional index of a specific feature in the shapefile; prints the feature's coordinates

rename_atttibutes.py

python rename_attributes.py <source-dir> <destination-dir>

Reads a shapefile, makes all the property names title case, adds a new property for the updated date and writes out the first 1000 features to a new shapefile.

source-dir: an unzipped shapefile folder; assumes that all files in the folder have the same name as the folder.

destination-dir: directory to write the new shapefile to.

shppandas.py

python shppandas.py <source-dir> <destination-dir>

Just an example of how to write a shapefile with geopandas instead of fiona; reads a shapefile, reprojects it to epsg=3857, writes out to a new shapefile.