[FWTools] Get lat & long from shapefiles in SPC

[Ron Phillips]

My agency works mostly in State Plane Coordinates, and we have many
shapefiles that contain SPC-based X and Y. 
 
I'd like to just enter the point-type shapefile path and the database
path and get a datatable with Easting, Northing, Lat, and Long all in
there with the data from the dbf. (For polygon and polyline data, I just
extract the bounding box, not all the rings or segments.)
 
Right now I am getting the SPC data out of the shapefiles and putting
it into a datatable, then using CorpsCon to find the Lats and Longs, but
I'd like to get rid of that step.
 
I am fairly familiar with Python, but not with GIS data, per se. Is
there anything in FWTools or Shapefile lib that can help me?
 
 
 
Ron Phillips
Programmer/Analyst
County of Summit Engineer
538 E. South St.
Akron, OH 44311
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