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Shapefile

Read Shapefile files.

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read_shapefile(
    shp_file: Union[str, Path, BinaryIO], dbf_file: Union[str, Path, BinaryIO]
) -> Table

Read a Shapefile into an Arrow Table.

The returned Arrow table will have geometry information in native GeoArrow encoding.

Note

Coordinate Reference System information is not currently read from the Shapefile.

Parameters:

  • shp_file (Union[str, Path, BinaryIO]) –

    the path to the .shp file or the .shp file as a Python file object in binary read mode.

  • dbf_file (Union[str, Path, BinaryIO]) –

    the path to the .dbf file or the .dbf file as a Python file object in binary read mode.