[Gdal-dev] How determine if lat\lon point falls within a shapefile

[Jose Luis Gomez Dans]

> if you have multipolygons, you have to check each one
> if you have to transform coordinate systems, you need to do that first

You can use OGR's GEOS functionality for these tests in python. i haven't got any sample code at hand now, but you can use things like within() and so on to check which points are within each feature.

It is fairly easy to code this.

Jose
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