Convert a shapefile (.shp) to xml/json

xml gis file-format
minimalpop picture minimalpop · Feb 8, 2010 · Viewed 60.3k times · Source

I'm working with a shapefile (.shp, .dbf, etc) and would like to convert it to xml. I'm on a mac, and I'm having trouble finding an application that will help me with the conversion. Does anyone know of a method for converting this file format into an xml file?

Answer

sgillies picture sgillies · Feb 12, 2010

What dassouki said. Get GDAL from http://www.kyngchaos.com/software:frameworks. Use it to convert a shapefile to GeoJSON like this:

$ ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" output.json input.shp

eg

$ ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" /tmp/world.json world_borders.shp world_borders
$ cat /tmp/world.json
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"features": [
{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "CAT": 1.000000, "FIPS_CNTRY": "AA",
  "CNTRY_NAME": "Aruba", "AREA": 193.000000, "POP_CNTRY": 71218.000000 }, 
  "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ -69.882233, ...
  ...

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