Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?
GeoTools will do it. There are a ton of jars and you don’t need most of them. However, reading the shapefile is just a few lines. File file = new File(“mayshapefile.shp”); try { Map<String, String> connect = new HashMap(); connect.put(“url”, file.toURI().toString()); DataStore dataStore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore(connect); String[] typeNames = dataStore.getTypeNames(); String typeName = typeNames[0]; System.out.println(“Reading content … Read more