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How can I convert an excel file with x, y columns to a shapefile?

Probably this could be an easy question for most of the people. But I would like to know the way to generate a shapefile, if I have an input as Excel or CSV file format.

asked Jan 16, 2012 at 14:36
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  • Does your source Excel/CSV have coordinates or addresses in them? Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 15:08
  • Yeah, it contains latlon too. Input can be any normal csv/excel file which should contain latlon(in my case polygon or multilinestring) and I need to get the shape file as the output. I was looking through JGrass(jgrasstechtips.blogspot.com/2008/05/…) and trying to figure out how it works. Thanks Commented Jan 16, 2012 at 16:16

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GDAL has support for CSV files, as documented here. In the examples section there is an example of converting a shapefile to csv which should help you get started.

answered Jan 16, 2012 at 14:44

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