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Pyshp is a Python module for manipulating Shapefiles, which are widely used in Geographic Information Systems.

Pyshp is a Python module for manipulating Shapefiles, which are widely used in Geographic Information Systems.

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyshp

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Memory error on large Shapefile in Python

import shapefile data = shapefile.Reader("data_file.shp") shapes = data.shapes() My problem is that getting the shapes from the Shapefile reader gives me an exception MemoryError when using Pyshp. The .shp file is quite large, at 1.2 gB. But I am…
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how to install pyshpgeocode from git

I would like to install the following from Git https://github.com/vis4/pyshpgeocode I tried the following command line found in StackOverflow but doesn't work pip install git+git://github.com/gka/pyshpgeocode.git Thank you very much for your help F
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How to retrieve coords from shp file

I am working with historical wind track data, which can be found here. How can I use pyshp to retrieve all the lat & lon along the windtrack correctly? I followed the documentation on PyShp and imported 'lin.shp' file type intially but the…
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