Geospatial
Natural Earth
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Website
Shapefiles
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How to get information about a shapefile
ogrinfo -so -al AREA.shp -
How to clip Shapefile with Shapefile
ogr2ogr -clipsrc CLIP.shp OUTPUT.shp INPUT.shp -
How to convert a Shapefile to GeoJSON
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON OUTPUT.geojson INPUT.shp -
How to reproject a Shapefile
ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:2784 OUTPUT.shp INPUT.shp
GeoJSON
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What is the minimum valid GeoJSON object?
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How to convert GeoJSON to TopoJSON
geo2topo INPUT.geojson > OUTPUT.topojson
Rasters
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How to get information about a GeoTIFF
gdalinfo AREA.tiff -
How to convert a GeoJPEG to a GeoTIFF
gdal_translate -of GTiff -a_srs EPSG:27700 INPUT.jpg OUTPUT.tiff -
How to convert a GeoTIFF to a GeoJPEG
gdal_translate -of JPEG -scale -co worldfile=yes INPUT.tiff OUTPUT.jpg
OpenStreetMap
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Website
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How to clip OpenStreetMap data with a GeoJSON boundary
osmium extract -p BOUNDARY.geojson INPUT.osm.pbf -o OUTPUT.pbf -
How to import an OpenStreetMap PBF file into a PostGIS database
The PostGIS database must have the HStore extension.
osm2pgsql -d DATABASE_NAME -c FILENAME.pbf