Top "Shapefile" questions

The Esri shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems (GIS) software.

Best way to overlay an ESRI shapefile on google maps?

What is the best way to overlay a shapefile in Google Maps? After some reading suggests that, converting shapefile into …

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Is there any free DBF file converter?

I have only found trial versions of these converters. Does anyone know a free one? Any of the following target …

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Need the path for particular files using os.walk()

I'm trying to perform some geoprocessing. My task is to locate all shapefiles within a directory, and then find the …

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Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?

I'm interested in writing a visualization program for the road data in the 2009 Tiger/Line Shapefiles. I'd like to draw …

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How/Where do I get geoJSON data for states, provinces, and administrative regions of non-US countries?

I need geoJSON formatted paths for states, provinces, and regions within multiple countries. Most readily available geoJSON data is for …

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Check if a geopoint with latitude and longitude is within a shapefile

How can I check if a geopoint is within the area of a given shapefile? I managed to load a …

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Error opening SHP file in R using maptools readShapePoly

I am new to R and was following the following tutorial on the ggplot2 package found here. However the readShapePoly() …

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sp::over() for point in polygon analysis

I have a shapefile named "ind_adm" and a SpatialPointsDataFrame called "pnts". The "pnts" contains points generated at random, and …

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Clipping raster using shapefile in R, but keeping the geometry of the shapefile

I am using {raster} to clip (or crop) a raster based on an irregular shapefile (the Amazon biome) but the …

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Read shape file with readOGR verses readShapePoly

I have read a shapefile using readShapePoly in the maptools package, but cannot read that same file with readOGR. I …

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