locationtech / locationtech/geotrellis
Feature Request: ShapeFileWriter
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Scala
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Description
I am trying to write some point/polygon features out to a .shp file, but only found the ShapeFileReader object. I could use geotools shapefilewriter, but it would be nice if geotrellis has it. Thank you very much!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the existing ShapeFileReader and comparing its handling of point and polygon features with geotools shapefilewriter. Define the intended ShapeFileWriter API and verify that it can write those features to a .shp file; the issue provides no named files or tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100