Well-known text (WKT) is a text markup language for representing vector geometry objects on a map, spatial reference systems of spatial objects and transformations between spatial reference systems.
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Visualising WKT geometry string in QGIS
A very simple question: Is there a simple tool in QGIS to graphically visualise geometry formatted as text?
Example geometry:
"POLYGON((571178 6337246,571178 6402217,598061 6402217,598061
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Convert between ESRI Geometry and WKT
It seems like there is no means of converting an ArcObjects geometry to the Well-Known Text representation (and vice versa) in ArcGIS ArcObjects API. The only thing I was able to find is conversion to ...
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Write out a WKT file from a loaded shapefile
We are looking to load and display a shapefile, simple polygons, then write out a WKT string of that shapefile and have the user save it somewhere.
Does anyone have some code snippets of that very ...
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How to convert a shapefile to WKT?
I'm trying to convert a shapefile into the simple Well Known Text (WKT) format in the example below (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text).
MULTIPOLYGON (((40 40, 20 45, 45 30, 40 40)),
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Looking for a pythonic way to calculate the length of a WKT linestring
I was quite unsatisfied with Calculating Length of Linestrings in WGS84 in Miles. It kept me wondering if there is a more convenient, Pythonic way to calculate the length of a WKT linestring according ...
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How to convert geometry to WKT using ArcPy?
I would like to be able to convert a single feature (or potentially many features) in an ArcGIS layer into Well Known Text (WKT) format during a geoprocessing operation using Python and ArcPy (no ...
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What is the best way to convert WKT String to GML String
What is the best way to programatically convert WKT String to GML String? Every reasonable library (at best available in some Maven repository) can be used.
Till now I came up with this solution ...
