Today, I made a new release of my old project node-shapefile-cli with a set of new features for better experience; upgraded the Ginkgoch Map Library for better performance and more precise vectors.
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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