{"id":1537,"date":"2013-07-17T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T01:32:04","slug":"take-a-note-about-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/take-a-note-about-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a note about map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t dig into legal issues yet, but for my hobby project I got everything regarding map from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadm.org\/country\">http:\/\/www.gadm.org\/country<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After getting shp files from the web site, I use pyshp module:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pyshp\/\">https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pyshp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To extract data to plain text format so that other programs can read it directly. There is an old version of pyshp comes with Ubuntu, but it&#8217;s sufficient to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t dig into legal issues yet, but for my hobby project I got everything regarding map from here: http:\/\/www.gadm.org\/country After getting shp files from the web site, I use pyshp module: https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pyshp\/ To extract data to plain text format so that other programs can read it directly. There is an old version of pyshp comes <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/take-a-note-about-map\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[431,27,433,432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}