Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Converting Polygon Shapefile

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

You could load it into PostGIS, let PostGIS calculate the centroid and 
export it again to shape using e.g. ogr2ogr.

You probably could also write an OGR Python script doing this.
Best regards,
Bart

Chip Taylor wrote:

Is there an open source utility that will convert a polygon shapefile to a
point shapefile, using the centroid of the polygon as the xy for the point?

Chip Taylor
Prepared Response, Inc


 



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