Reads the polygon points from a shp file.

Parameters¶

fname: str

Path to the .shp file

names: list: of str, optinal

The names of the polygons to be extracted. All by default

name_col: int

Column that contains the area names

geom_col: str

The geometry column

to_utm: bool or str, optional

Convert to UTM coordinates. If str, then UTM zone plus letter, e.g. “32U”

ret_utm_zone: bool

Return UTM zone plus letter as str

kwargs: dict, optional

Additional parameters for geopandas.read_shp()

Returns¶

point_dict_exterior: dict

Dict with list of array of points. Key: area name, Value: list:np.ndarray, shape of latter: (n_points, 2)

point_dict_interior: dict

Dict with list of array of points. Key: area name, Value: list:np.ndarray, shape of latter: (n_points, 2)

utm_zone_str: str, optional

The utem zone plus letter as str, e.g. “32U”