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I am trying to create a polygon shapefile from a list of coordinates using open source python tools. The following is what I have so far which was hacked together from the Python GDAL/OGR Cookbook and this GIS SE answers.

There is a similar question Python: How to create a Polygon Shapefile from a list of X,Y coordinates?, although this question is referring to using pyshp. However, I'm interested in creating a polygon shapefile using only gdal/ogr Python tools.

import ogr

def create_polygon(coords):          
    ring = ogr.Geometry(ogr.wkbLinearRing)
    for coord in coords:
        ring.AddPoint(coord[0], coord[1])

    # Create polygon
    poly = ogr.Geometry(ogr.wkbPolygon)
    poly.AddGeometry(ring)
    return poly.ExportToWkt()

def write_shapefile(poly, out_shp):
    """
    https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/52708/8104
    """
    # Now convert it to a shapefile with OGR    
    driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('Esri Shapefile')
    ds = driver.CreateDataSource(out_shp)
    layer = ds.CreateLayer('', None, ogr.wkbPolygon)
    # Add one attribute
    layer.CreateField(ogr.FieldDefn('id', ogr.OFTInteger))
    defn = layer.GetLayerDefn()

    ## If there are multiple geometries, put the "for" loop here

    # Create a new feature (attribute and geometry)
    feat = ogr.Feature(defn)
    feat.SetField('id', 123)

    # Make a geometry, from Shapely object
    geom = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkb(poly.wkb)
    feat.SetGeometry(geom)

    layer.CreateFeature(feat)
    feat = geom = None  # destroy these

    # Save and close everything
    ds = layer = feat = geom = None

def main(coords, out_shp):
    poly = create_polygon(coords)
    write_shapefile(poly, out_shp)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    coords = [(-106.6472953, 24.0370137), (-106.4933356, 24.05293569), (-106.4941789, 24.01969175), (-106.4927777, 23.98804445), (-106.4922614, 23.95582128), (-106.4925834, 23.92302327), (-106.4924068, 23.89048039), (-106.4925695, 23.85771361), (-106.4932479, 23.82457675), (-106.4928676, 23.7922049), (-106.4925072, 23.75980241), (-106.492388, 23.72722475), (-106.4922574, 23.69464296), (-106.4921181, 23.6620529), (-106.4922734, 23.62926733), (-106.4917201, 23.59697561), (-106.4914134, 23.56449628), (-106.4912558, 23.5319045), (-106.491146, 23.49926362), (-106.4911734, 23.46653561), (-106.4910181, 23.43392476), (-106.4910156, 23.40119976), (-106.4909501, 23.3685223), (-106.4908165, 23.33586566), (-106.4907735, 23.30314904), (-106.4906954, 23.27044931), (-106.4906366, 23.23771759), (-106.4905894, 23.20499124), (-106.4905432, 23.17226022), (-106.4904748, 23.1395177), (-106.4904187, 23.10676788), (-106.4903676, 23.07401321), (-106.4903098, 23.04126832), (-106.4902512, 23.00849426), (-106.4901979, 22.97572025), (-106.490196, 22.97401001), (-106.6481193, 22.95609832), (-106.6481156, 22.95801668), (-106.6480697, 22.99082052), (-106.6480307, 23.02362441), (-106.6479937, 23.0563977), (-106.6479473, 23.0891833), (-106.647902, 23.12196713), (-106.6478733, 23.15474057), (-106.6478237, 23.18750353), (-106.6477752, 23.22026138), (-106.6477389, 23.25302505), (-106.647701, 23.28577123), (-106.6476562, 23.31851549), (-106.6476211, 23.3512557), (-106.6475745, 23.38397935), (-106.6475231, 23.41671055), (-106.6474863, 23.44942382), (-106.6474432, 23.48213255), (-106.6474017, 23.51484861), (-106.6474626, 23.54747418), (-106.647766, 23.57991134), (-106.6482374, 23.61220905), (-106.6484783, 23.64467084), (-106.6482308, 23.6775148), (-106.6479338, 23.7103854), (-106.6478395, 23.74309074), (-106.6472376, 23.77618646), (-106.6472982, 23.80876072), (-106.647127, 23.84151129), (-106.6471277, 23.8741312), (-106.6473995, 23.90656505), (-106.6473138, 23.93916488), (-106.6473408, 23.97172031), (-106.6473796, 24.00435261), (-106.6472953, 24.0370137)]
    out_shp = r'X:\temp\polygon.shp'
    main(coords, out_shp)

This is the error I have been receiving:

runfile('X:/temp/corner_detection.py', wdir='X:/temp')
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-40-952256a990f1>", line 1, in <module>
    runfile('X:/temp/corner_detection.py', wdir='X:/temp')

  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 866, in runfile
    execfile(filename, namespace)

  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\site\sitecustomize.py", line 87, in execfile
    exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)

  File "X:/temp/corner_detection.py", line 48, in <module>
    main(coords, out_shp)

  File "X:/temp/corner_detection.py", line 43, in main
    write_shapefile(poly, out_shp)

  File "X:/temp/corner_detection.py", line 20, in write_shapefile
    layer = ds.CreateLayer('', None, ogr.wkbPolygon)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'CreateLayer'

I'm convinced the problem has something to do with trying to read a shapely geometry. How can I create a polygon shapefile from a list of coords using only gdal/ogr python tools?

3 Answers 3

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You are getting that error because you have the ShapeFile open. So it cannot recreate it.

But I ran your script and got a different error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 48, in <module>
    main(coords, out_shp)
  File "test.py", line 43, in main
    write_shapefile(poly, out_shp)
  File "test.py", line 32, in write_shapefile
    geom = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkb(poly.wkb)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'wkb'

You seem to be trying to extract Well Known Binary (WKB) from Well Know Text (WKT).

You already get the WKT representation from:

    return poly.ExportToWkt()

So to fix it just use the Wkt geometry creator instead of the Wkb.

Change:

geom = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkb(poly.wkb)

To:

geom = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkt(poly)
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Your datasource (ds) is not created, possibly because you ask for a Esri Shapefile instead of a ESRI Shapefile. In general you should check you get a driver * datastore back from

driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('Esri Shapefile')
ds = driver.CreateDataSource(out_shp)
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Because shapefile X:\temp\polygon.shp exists, remove or rename it.

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