How to Read Several Common GIS Data Types using Python

This example shows how easy it is to read a shapefile using Fiona, you can open a file, iterate over the features and access the data, and close the file using the “with” statement. Fiona also supports other formats such as geojson, KML, and others, you can use the same approach to read these other formats, by simply changing the file path and extension when opening the file with the fiona.open() method. For example, to read a geojson file, you would use: Fiona also allows you to specify the driver when opening a file, in case the file format is […]

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