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Fiona

Open Source

Pythonic file I/O for geospatial vector data, wrapping GDAL/OGR.

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License

BSD-3-Clause

About

Fiona reads and writes geospatial vector data formats as simple Python mappings, wrapping GDAL's OGR library in a clean, Pythonic API. It handles Shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage and dozens more formats, and pairs naturally with Shapely for geometry work and GeoPandas for analysis.

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Details

Type: Library
Pricing: open-source
License: BSD-3-Clause

Languages

Python

Data formats

Shapefile

GeoJSON

GeoPackage

GML