shapeObject

Create an objected from a shapefile with shapely compatible geometry

The Pyshp library allows for a pure python approach to reading in Esri Shapefile formatted files. This Project uses Pyshp to import these files, but then configures the objects to be Shapely style objects.

Getting Started

shapeObject is available via Pypi so you can pip install by the following command

python -m pip install shapeObject

Usage

After installing shapeObject all you need to do is provide a path to Esri's .shp file and your good to go! Keep in mind that Esri .shp files tend to have lots of supporting files and these should be in the same directory as Pyshp will look within the directory of the .shp file for these supporting files.

from shapeObject.ShapeObject import ShapeObject

file = ShapeObject(r"/path/to/your/shapefile/file.shp")

Now you have an objected that has loaded your shapefile which is filled with shapely objects! If you want a more detailed set of information you use the example jupyter notebook within the Examples directory along with some example shapefiles that have been provided for you, or your own if you have them.