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I would like to open a shapefile(shp) without loading the attributes(dbf), as I do not care about attributes and it takes about 25 minutes to load them. I am using Python Geopandas, so any Fiona or Osgeo solution is useful.

I want the results from below code, but not the waiting time!

geometry = GeoDataFrame.from_file('easyshapes_bigattributes.shp').geometry

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  • You could just temporarily rename the .dbf file, so it will not be recognised as part of the shapefile, and therefore will not be loaded
    – Matt
    Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 13:28
  • awesome. works like a charm
    – Laurens Koppenol
    Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 13:42
  • Easy as long as you don't have loads of shapefiles!
    – Matt
    Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 13:44
  • I will rename the file with python :)
    – Laurens Koppenol
    Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 13:49

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As in my comment, simply rename the .dbf file, so it will not be recognised as part of the shapefile, and therefore will not be loaded.

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