Converting Polygon Shapefile

[Sean Gillies]

There are tutorial-ish examples of programming with ogr.py at

   http://zcologia.com/news/16
   http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=4

cheers,
Sean

On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:

> You could load it into PostGIS, let PostGIS calculate the centroid and
> export it again to shape using e.g. ogr2ogr.
>
> You probably could also write an OGR Python script doing this.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> Chip Taylor wrote:
>
>> Is there an open source utility that will convert a polygon  
>> shapefile to a
>> point shapefile, using the centroid of the polygon as the xy for  
>> the point?
>>
>> Chip Taylor
>> Prepared Response, Inc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> http://www.osgis.nl

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