Extracting Lat/Lng from Shapefile using OGR2OGR/GDAL

How do I extract coordinates from a shapefile?

Export coordinates

1. Click the Export button in the Coordinate Conversion pane.
2. Click the button for the format to which to export the collected coordinates—this could be feature class, shapefile, KMZ, or CSV—and click OK.
3. Browse to the location where you want to store the output and click Save.

What does ogr2ogr do?

ogr2ogr can be used to convert simple features data between file formats. It can also perform various operations during the process, such as spatial or attribute selection, reducing the set of attributes, setting the output coordinate system or even reprojecting the features during translation.

What formats does ogr2ogr output in?

Ogr supports many data formats here is a subset of the ones we commonly use: ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo Tab file, CSV, DBF, GML, KML, Interlis, SQLite, GeoPackage,SpatiaLite, ODBC, ESRI GeoDatabase (MDB format), ESRI GDB database, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, MySQL.

How do I add latitude and longitude to a shapefile?

Right click on your file and hover over “Create Feature Class”, then select “From XY Table…” In the pop-up window, the X Field should be Longitude and the Y Field should be Latitude. If you know the spatial reference of the input coordinates, click the “Coordinate System of Input Coordinates…” button.

How do you extract latitude and longitude?

Get the coordinates of a place

1. On your computer, open Google Maps.
2. Right-click the place or area on the map. This will open a pop-up window. You can find your latitude and longitude in decimal format at the top.
3. To copy the coordinates automatically, left click on the latitude and longitude.

How do I extract coordinates?

First, open Google Maps on your computer, right-click the place you want to get coordinates. A pop-up window will show, you can find the latitude and longitude on the top. Left-click and copy them automatically.
 

How do you use OGR?

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What is an ogr file?

What is OGR? ¶ The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ Open Source library (and command-line tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and MapInfo mid/mif and TAB formats.

What does ogr stand for?

OGR used to stand for OpenGIS Simple Features Reference Implementation.

How do I extract XY coordinates in Arcgis?

Procedure

1. In ArcMap, right-click the layer of interest, and select Edit Features > Start Editing.
2. On the Editor toolbar, click the Edit Vertices tool. .
3. Click the Sketch Properties tool. . The Edit Sketch Properties window opens, and the XY coordinates of the line vertices are listed in the X and Y columns.

Do shapefiles have a coordinate system?

A shapefile often doesn’t have any information that identifies which coordinate system was used to define its features. In this case, the Shape column’s Spatial Reference property will be Unknown or Assumed Geographic.

How do I export coordinates from a shapefile in Qgis?

You can simply right-click the layer entry in QGIS and select “Save as”. In the dialog, there’s an option to save as “CSV”.



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1. Open the attribute table for the layer you want to save.
2. Select all rows.
3. Copy the rows.
4. Paste into a spreadsheet.
5. Save the spreadsheet as a csv.