GeoPandas

Import shapefiles using GeoPandas and PsycoPG2.

1 Comment / Database, GeoPandas, GIS, PostGIS, Psycopg2, Python /

GeoPandas is great python library to process your vector data. It has direct support for postgis database where you can directly read/write from/to postgis database. GeoPandas internally uses SqlAlchemy API to manage database specific operations like reading from PostGIS, writing to PostGIS etc. SqlAlchemy can be used for almost all the databases out there like […]

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Import Shapefile to PostgreSQL/PostGIS database using GeoPandas/Python

6 Comments / GeoPandas, GIS, PostGIS, Python /

The usage of Python in GeoSpatial field has exponentially grown. Almost every GIS desktop software provide python integration. QGIS, famous open source GIS software, has python interface. Python has many open source GIS libraries for example GDAL, Fiona, GeoPandas, RasterIO, Shapely, Xarray Spatial etc. These libraries can process both raster as well as vector data.

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