csv2shp

This is a utility tool for converting a CSV file into an ESRI shapefile.

The CSV file should contain geometry stored in format of XY coordinates or WKT text.

Installation

make install

Configurations

csv2shp -i INPUT_FILE  -m xy|wkt [-x x_name_or_index, -y y_name_or_index |-geom geom_name_or_index ] [-delimiter ';'] -o output_file

• i (required): input file
• o (required): output file
• m (required): mode (xy input or wkt input)
• g (optional): geometry column name or idx starting from 0 (Default:'geom') used when mode is wkt
• x (optional): x column name or idx starting from 0 (Default:'x') used when mode is xy
• y (optional): y column name or idx starting from 0 (Default:'y') used when mode is xy
• d (optional): delimiter of CSV file (Default: ';')
• H (optional): with header, t or f (Default: 't')
• h: help information

The data type of columns will be infered as int,double,string automatically. Without header (-H f), the columns will be named as field1, field2, ...

Example usage

cd example
csv2shp -i xy.csv -o example.shp -m 'xy' -d ','
csv2shp -i xy.csv -o example.shp -m 'xy' -d ',' -x 3 -y4
csv2shp -i wkt.csv -o example.shp -m 'wkt' -d ';'
csv2shp -i wkt.csv -o example.shp -m 'wkt' -d ';' -g 2
csv2shp -i xy_noheader.csv -o example.shp -m 'xy' -d ',' -x 3 -y 4 -H 'f'
csv2shp -i wkt_noheader.csv -o example.shp -m 'wkt' -g 2 -H 'f'

Check the result using ogrinfo:

ogrinfo -al example.shp

Requirement

• Unix OS (tested on Ubuntu 16.04)
• gcc >= 4.4 (gnu++11 used)
• GDAL >= 2.1.0

Author information

Can Yang, Ph.D. student at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden

Email: cyang(at)kth.se

Homepage: https://people.kth.se/~cyang/