vis4/shp2svg

Now discontinued converter from ESRI shapefiles to SVG. Check http://github.com/kartograph/kartograph.py instead..

shp2svg - Easy conversion from ESRI shapefiles to SVG

Written by Gregor Aisch

MIT license

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Python modules:
  • shapefile http://code.google.com/p/shapefile/
  • pyproj http://code.google.com/p/pyproj/
  • svgfig http://code.google.com/p/svgfig/

Analyzing

Analyzing a shapefile

python shp2svg -a countries.shp 

Will output

analyzing shapefile WorldCountries.shp

Geometry:
   253 	Records (total)
   253 	Polygons

Metadata:
   0:  Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, ...
   1:  AF, AL, DZ, AS, AD, ...
   2:  AFG, ALB, DZA, ASM, AND, ...
   3:  4, 8, 12, 16, 20, ...
   4:  AF, AL, DZ, AS, AD, ...
   5:  AF, AL, AG, AQ, AN, ...
   6:  , , , , , ...
   7:  28717213, 3582205, 32818500, 70260, 69150, ...
   8:  14749926, 3258139, 25341272, 47199, 52837, ...
   9:  33864492, 3826712, 36588772, 80655, 73512, ...
   10:  40.63, 18.2, 21.94, 23.26, 9.65, ...
   11:  17.15, 6.48, 5.09, 4.38, 5.74, ...
   12:  10.32, -1.39, -0.4, 3.29, 6.67, ...
   13:  2.35, 1.17, 1.69, 1.89, 0.39, ...
   14:  3.38, 1.03, 1.65, 2.22, 1.06, ...
   15:  142.48, 37.28, 37.74, 9.82, 4.06, ...
   16:  145.99, 39.68, 40.34, 11.61, 4.4, ...
   17:  138.8, 34.71, 35.02, 7.93, 3.7, ...
   18:  46.97, 72.37, 70.54, 75.75, 83.49, ...
   19:  47.67, 69.53, 69.14, 71.35, 80.58, ...
   20:  46.23, 75.42, 72.01, 80.41, 86.58, ...

You now can select the metadata you want to keep in SVG output by setting the -k option

python shp2svg -a countries.shp -k name,iso2,iso3

Output:

analyzing shapefile WorldCountries

Geometry:
   253 	Records (total)
   253 	Polygons

Metadata:
   name:  Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, ...
   iso2:  AF, AL, DZ, AS, AD, ...
   iso3:  AFG, ALB, DZA, ASM, AND, ...

ToDos

• map projection
• svg output :)
• shape filter based on metadata queries
• geometry simplification