https://github.com/wavded/js-shapefile-to-geojson

Convert Shapfiles and DBF to GeoJSON using JavaScript
https://github.com/wavded/js-shapefile-to-geojson

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Convert Shapfiles and DBF to GeoJSON using JavaScript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wavded/js-shapefile-to-geojson
• Owner: wavded
• Created: 2010-07-30T22:22:57.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-04T15:48:23.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T09:41:06.525Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://wavded.github.com/js-shapefile-to-geojson/
• Size: 604 KB
• Stars: 301
• Watchers: 24
• Forks: 113
• Open Issues: 14
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  • Readme: readme.md

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README

        
This project allows a user to load Shapefiles and DBFs into the browser with JavaScript.

Outputs as [GeoJSON](http://geojson.org/) for use with other Mapping APIs such as [OpenLayers](http://openlayers.org).

Inspired by the excellent work by Tom Carden ([http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js/](http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js/)).

### Overview

I just got this out there so nothing is minified.  See index.html for an example of order.  All files need to be in the same directory.  This will use Web Workers if the browser support exists.  Not recommended for large files, more of an experiment than anything.

### Running the Example

Host the files (example won't run off disk, needs to be ran on a web server), a simple way to do this is run the following command in the project root:

```sh

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

```

And visit http://localhost:8000 in your favorite browser.

### Usage

You can use it to parse shapefiles (.shp) or dBase files (.dbf) or both.  Here are some examples.

Load Shapefile Only

    new Shapefile("myshapefile.shp", function (data) {

        // data returned

    });

Load DBF Only

    new DBF("mydbf.dbf", function (data) {

        // data returned

    });

Load Shapefile w/ DBF Attributes

    new Shapefile({

        shp: "myshape.shp",

        dbf: "myshape.dbf"

    }, function (data) {

        // data returned

    });

Use with OpenLayers

    var parser = new OpenLayer.Format.GeoJSON(),

        features;

    new Shapefile({

        shp: "myshape.shp",

        dbf: "myshape.dbf"

    }, function (data) {

        features = parser.read(data.geojson);

    });

### Resources

I used the technical descriptions found here to parse the binary:

> [ESRI Shapefile Technical Description - PDF](http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf)

> [dBase (Xbase) File Format Description](http://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html)

### Future

I plan to implement (time permitting) some custom renderers like SVG or Canvas (besides using OpenLayers) to improve the speed.

Feel free to hack at this, submit bugs, pull requests, and make it better.  If you write a renderer, please push it back and I'll add it to the project.

### License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Marc Harter <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the

'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including

without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,

distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to

permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to

the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be

included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY

CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,

TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE

SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.