[Qgis-user] python(3) script to calculate latitude longitude values from (ESRI) shape file

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Good pointers Nyall,

I need to start working with this stuff.  

Nicolas Cadieux
https://gitlab.com/njacadieux

> Le 21 avr. 2021 à 21:24, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 06:43, wxgis <thinjogger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi -
>> Wondering if there is existing Python(3) script code that can take an (ESRI)
>> shape file as input and then calculate latitude/longitude/elevation values
>> for country boundaries.  For example, if the input file is a SHP file for
>> France, the output would be the lat/lon/elevation values for the country
>> boundaries.  I am quite new to QGIS, looking at version 3.18 (so only know
>> about ESRI shape files, maybe there are other types of SHP files?), and read
>> that in QGIS  I can edit the attribute table for a given layer and add
>> latitude/longitude attributes, but I am hoping to this more
>> programmatically, using the QGIS Python console.  I gladly welcome any ideas
>> on this.
> 
> If you're new to this then I'd suggest skipping the Python part and
> instead making a graphical model using Processing tools to do what you
> want. The visual aspect of making models will help guide you through
> the process, and there's plently of video tutorials on Youtube showing
> how to do this.
> 
> You can even then take the model and automatically convert it directly
> to a Python script with a single button click!
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Nyall
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