How do I convert a polygon into a point?

Question

I want to convert polygons into points. I know how it's done in ArcGis and I think this may sound trivial but it's a serious issue :/.

I'll appreciate any hints :)

Answer 1

you can do this in qgis as :

Vector - Geometry Tools - Polygon Centroids

i hope it helps you...

Answer 2

and polygon to border nodes

Vector - Geometry Tools - Nodes extraction

Answer 3

You could start here:

Feature To Point

import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace = "C:/data"
arcpy.FeatureToPoint_management("parcels.shp", "c:/data/output/parcels_center.shp", 
                            "CENTROID")

---OR---

Feature Vertices To Point

here:

import arcpy
from arcpy import env
env.workspace = "C:/data"
arcpy.FeatureVerticesToPoints_management("parcels.shp",
                                     "c:/output/output.gdb/parcels_corner", 
                                     "ALL")