Sometimes, when we want to peek a shapefile, see what’s the shape type it is, how many records it has, or find out what properties it contains. There are some free tools to visualize it. But most of the tools are too heavy or maybe not possible to support multiple platforms such as macOS or Linux. Here is a cross platform command line tool to inspect a specified shapefile on our local machine with Ginkgoch map library. It provides functions to inspect a specified shapefile’s header, fields, records etc. You could see, it is totally free and open source. Enjoy it!

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ginkgoch-shapefile-reader is a Node.js library to help to read shapefiles from your disk.

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I/O APIs are very important. Node.js’ file stream API is very rough for reading file stream.

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In Node.js, when we want to read continuous number or string from a Buffer instance, we have to maintain a position where we are reading at. To make it easy, here is a library to help to read Buffer instance easier.

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