shape2geosparql

A library for converting shapefiles to GeoSPARQL.

Install

The GDAL library should already be installed on the system. On Fedora:

$ sudo yum install gdal-devel

On other systems:

• Ubuntu: https://mothergeo-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/how-to/gdal-ubuntu-pkg.html#install-gdal-ogr
• Windows: https://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/sandbox/tutorials/installing-gdal-for-windows

You only need to install the core library, as the Python bindings will be installed with shape2geosparql.

Once GDAL is installed:

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install shape2geosparql

Should there be any problems in installing the GDAL Python library, try to run this first:

$ pip install gdal==$(gdal-config --version)

or insert the GDAL version number in place of $(gdal-config --version).

Usage

Download and extract a shapefile, for example from:

• https://dati.trentino.it/dataset/stazioni-treno-open-data
• https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/american-red-cross-chapter-facilities

Then, from python, IPython or Jupyter:

from shape2geosparql import convert

converter = convert('FILENAME.shp')
print(converter.write().decode()) 

You can also run the shape2geosparql command:

$ shape2geosparql FILENAME.shp