[FWTools] return a features geometry

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Sep 11 15:24:20 EDT 2008


Travis Kirstine wrote:
> Is there a method to return all (polygon) feature geometries as a
> list using python?
> 
> layer = shp.GetLayerByName(layerName)
> feature  = layer.GetNextFeature()
> polyGeom = feature.GetGeometryRef()
> exteriorRing = polyGeom.GetGeometryRef(0)
> print exteriorRing.GetX(0), exteriorRing.GetY(0) # return only one coord pair

Travis,

No, there isn't but you could easily construct such a method in Python
out of the existing primitives.

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