helps if I paste the link
https://www.openshift.com/blogs/using-open-source-gis-tools-for-spatial-data-qgis-gdal-python


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:00 PM, steven citron-pousty <
scitronpou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The second half of this blog post has a code example that will help you
> code the test for the points being in the polygons
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Abhishek <cheerful...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> First, I'm very new to doing gis programming in python (and GIS in
>> general) so apologies if this has been answered before.
>>
>> I was wondering if there was a straightforward way for me to do the
>> following:
>> 1. Read in a shapefile (all counties in the UK)
>> 2. Read in a csv with a list of lat / lon (this I know how to do)
>> 3. Spit out a csv with the same list of points and the polygon id from
>> the shapefile, indicating that the point lies within the polygon (i.e.
>> in the county)
>>
>> Ive got this to work by manually constructing polygons from a csv
>> export of the shapefile, but I'm afraid that Im not going to deal very
>> well with holes in counties, or edge cases. A standard out-of-the-box
>> solution would be great.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Abhishek
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