Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?
- by KingNestor
I'm interested in writing a visualization program for the road data in the 2009 Tiger/Line Shapefiles. I'd like to draw the line data to display all the roads for my county.
The ESRI Shapefile or simply a
shapefile is a popular geospatial
vector data format for geographic
information systems software. It is
developed and regulated by ESRI as a
(mostly) open specification for data
interoperability among ESRI and other
software products.1 A "shapefile"
commonly refers to a collection of
files with ".shp", ".shx", ".dbf", and
other extensions on a common prefix
name (e.g., "lakes.*"). The actual
shapefile relates specifically to
files with the ".shp" extension,
however this file alone is incomplete
for distribution, as the other
supporting files are required.
Does anyone know of existing libraries for parsing and reading in the line data for Shapefiles?
