Work with shp data in Python

Sometimes we need to work with some graphical and GIS data in very specific format. Here I will show how to work with shp data foramt in Python.

Here is a library pyshp. Install it

pip install pyshp

Then open some file using pyshp

import shapefile
path_shp_file = 'LineFeature.shp'
path_sf = shapefile.Reader(path_shp_file)

We can list points in shp data

shp = path_sf.shapes()[0]
points = shp.points
print(points)

Result

[(27.01890117981722, 53.323636127351705), (27.018302950803267, 53.3234231966127),

WE can visualize points using matplotlib library. That’s very simple. Import matplotlib.pyplot

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

and visualize point

x = [p[0] for p in points]
y = [p[1] for p in points]
plt.scatter(x, y)
plt.plot(x, y)
plt.show()

Result