everystreet / shp2svg

Converts shapefiles to SVG images.

shp2svg

A tool to convert shapefiles to SVG.

Installation

1. Download and install Go; then,
2. Run go install github.com/everystreet/shp2svg/cmd/shp2svg@latest.

Usage

The examples in this section utilize public domain Natural Earth datasets.

By default shp2svg renders all shapes in the provided shapefiles. Shapefiles must be provided in the form of ZIP files, and must contain .dbf and .shp files.

shp2svg -s 10 -d world.svg -z ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip -z ne_110m_populated_places.zip

The example above renders the following SVG:

Filters can be applied by referencing shapefile attributes. The example below uses the same datasets as above, but renders only the countries and cities in the DACH region.

shp2svg -s 100 -d dach.svg -z ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip -f NAME_EN=[Germany,Austria,Switzerland] -z ne_110m_populated_places.zip -f NAME=[Berlin,Vienna,Bern,Geneva]

Note that -f NAME_EN=[Germany,Austria,Switzerland] is semantically equivalent to -f NAME_EN=Germany -f NAME_EN=Austria -f NAME_EN=Switzerland, but is somewhat less verbose. The square brackets are only necessary when multiple values for the same field are listed inside the same -f argument.