Encoding and decoding functions for shapefiles

[gpontesss]

I've been doing some research to find a library for encoding/decoding shapefiles. I've found two:

• go-shp
• geom (Coincidentally the same name as this one)

go-shp only does the job of reading and writing files. Its objects do not provide a lot of functionality desired when dealing with geometry. So it kind of requires the work of transforming between library formats.

On the other hand, geom seems to be have a lot of the functionality desired for dealing with geometry, but it still lacks some of the functionality that go-geom has.

Are there any plans for implementing shapefile encoding/decoding? I think it would be a great additive :)

[twpayne]

I personally don't use shapefiles, but I would be very happy to accept a PR that adds this functionality to go-geom.

[gpontesss]

Cool! I'll look into it.