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January 14, 2017 19:09
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Read a shapefile into a Pandas dataframe
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| def read_shapefile(shp_path): | |
| """ | |
| Read a shapefile into a Pandas dataframe with a 'coords' column holding | |
| the geometry information. This uses the pyshp package | |
| """ | |
| import shapefile | |
| #read file, parse out the records and shapes | |
| sf = shapefile.Reader(shp_path) | |
| fields = [x[0] for x in sf.fields][1:] | |
| records = sf.records() | |
| shps = [s.points for s in sf.shapes()] | |
| #write into a dataframe | |
| df = pd.DataFrame(columns=fields, data=records) | |
| df = df.assign(coords=shps) | |
| return df |
it worked!
Thanks, This is useful.
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I get an error on python 3.6
Solution by rewriting
records = sf.records()
as
records =[list(i) for i in sf.records()]