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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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How to Read Features and Coordinates from ESRI Shapefile using Python

This line imports the OGR library, allowing you to use its functions and methods to read in features and coordinates from the shapefile. It’s important to note that you may need to install GDAL library to use the OGR library, you can install it via pip by running pip install gdal in your command prompt or terminal.

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