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Csv to Shp conversion? [duplicate]

I am working on a really big script right now where I have a csv file that I have removed rows and columns from, and edited the headers. I need to create one big shapefile for the entire csv file then ...
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Join .csv file and .shp of georeferenced points

I have georeferenced a map and saved a selection of some points on the map. These points are cities of departure and arrival and I want to join the .shp with a and excel .csv with the information of ...
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Problem with encoding of CSV and SHP files in Linux

I am new to using QGIS. I came up against the encoding issue of shp files. This solution to solved my problem in Windows (for source I had to put windows-1253 instead of utf-8) My question is what ...
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OGR Shapefile to CSV: Using Python to get WKT for multipart Polys.

Using ogr2ogr and python, I'm running into a wall with trying to create a csv with WKTs for a shapefile that contains multipart polygons. Currently this is this code I'm using (found it on interweb): ...
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From text data create a FeatureClass with table with python

I'm searching how the output of one program (text file with some writings, but also with data as numbers, dates, times, coordinates, all separated with commas) can be transformed to a Feature Dataset. ...
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Using the python shape library: pyshp - how to convert .csv file to .shp

I am trying to understand how I can use the csv module in python to open a csv file in the same folder as the python script, and then create a shapefile using the shapefile module pyshp. The csv file ...
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How to edit Shapefile Attributes?

How might I go about exporting a polygon shapefile (e.g. CSV) so that attributes (not geometry) are editable by others, and importing it with the changed attributes (of which there are several columns ...
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encoding problem with QGIS 1.8 and CSV import

I have following problem with QGIS 1.8. Lisboa (standalone installer, Win 7 Pro 64bit) - I import CSV - text in CP1250 separated with ";" and using "," as decimal separator. I correctly set the ...
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Desktop tool to batch convert Shapefils to CSV with polygon outline coordinates [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to convert .shp to .csv including attributes AND geometry? Is there a desktop tool that would allow me to take dozens of large (300MB) shapefiles and convert them ...
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Unable to create shapefile using shapefile.py

I am trying to create shapefile from csv data using shapefile.py but i am constantly getting this error, Traceback (most recent call last): File "createShp_Davis.py", line 31, in <module> ...
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Creating shape file from file with coordinates

How can I make a shape file of an csv file with coordinates?
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Loading data onto PostGIS using KML files with attibute data

So, I have a kml file which contains 317 data points (317 polygons and the respective 317 names). The kml file also contains attribute data which pops up in a bubble on Google earth with about 12 ...
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How to convert .shp to .csv including attributes AND geometry?

I have a .shp file with 60k+ entries, all of which are polygons with corresponding attributes (acreage totals, landowner names, tax ID #s, etc.). What I ultimately need is a .csv file with all of ...
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How to generate shape file from Excel or CSV files? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I convert an excel file with x, y columns to a shapefile? Probably this could be an easy question for most of the people. But I would like to know the way to ...
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Error running geotools tutorial for CSV2SHP?

Although I run this tutorial I always get following error message: Nov 22, 2011 5:10:50 PM org.geotools.referencing.factory.epsg.ThreadedPostgreSQLEpsgFactory isAvailable WARNING: ...