GeoTables.jl

Load geospatial tables from known file formats and convert the geometries to Meshes.jl geometries that are compatible with the GeoStats.jl ecosystem.

Geometries are loaded from disk in pure Julia whenever possible using packages such as Shapefile.jl and GeoJSON.jl, or (down)loaded from the internet using the GADM.jl package.

Usage

Loading/saving data from/to disk

The load and save functions are self-explanatory:

using GeoTables

table = GeoTables.load("file.shp")

GeoTables.save("file.geojson", table)

Additional keyword arguments can be passed to load and save functions. Valid arguments are those accepted by GeoJSON.read, GeoJSON.write, Shapefile.Table, Shapefile.write and ArchGDAL.read. See below some examples:

# read `.geojson` geometries with Float64 precision
table = GeoTables.load("file.geojson", numbertype = Float64)

# force writing on existing `.shp` file
GeoTables.save("file.shp", table, force = true)

Please read the docstrings for more details.

Loading data from GADM

The gadm function (down)loads data from the GADM dataset:

julia> GeoTables.gadm("BRA", depth = 1)

Please read the docstring for more details.

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