SHAPE_POINTINPOLY(1)

💖 SHAPE_POINTINPOLY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the shplib corner of the terminal, we're doing Shape_PointInPoly today and honestly? iconic behaviour. this is the little command-line bestie that calculates a point in a polygon. yes that's the whole NAME section, that's the vibe, we love a one-liner 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Shape_PointInPoly shpfile_path quality

that's it. two things. you got this fr fr 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, Shape_PointInPoly is a commandline program — like, you run it in your shell, no GUI, no drama — and what it does is generate points-in-polygons from a shapefile as a shapefile. read that again. it eats a shapefile, it spits out a shapefile, and in between it's making points that are inside polygons. that's the gig. she's a converter, she's serving, she's lowkey doing spatial work for you 🦋

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

two arguments, both mandatory-ish, both matter, no cap:

• shpfile_path — the shapefile. literally the shapefile. that's the whole description, bestie, it's a shapefile 🗂️
• quality — the quality of points to create. you're telling her how nice you want the points, and she's gonna bring that energy ✨

ngl the docs here are ✨sparse✨ — that's not me being shady, that's just literally all the original says. respect the minimalism ig 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Shape_PointInPoly was contributed to shapelib by Marko Podgorsek, and shapelib is maintained by Frank Warmerdam. two icons. we stan. thank you for your service, kings 🫡💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole shplib friend group, go say hi, they're all chill:

• dbfadd(1)
• dbfcat(1)
• dbfcreate(1)
• dbfdump(1)
• dbfinfo(1)
• shpadd(1)
• shpcentrd(1)
• shpcreate(1)
• shpdump(1)
• shpdxf(1)
• shpfix(1)
• shpinfo(1)
• shpproj(1)
• shprewind(1)
• shptest(1)

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and that's the page!! 🎀 this one shipped as part of shplib, stamped March 2026, and honestly? periodt. go make some points, bestie, you're the main character of this shapefile 🌈💖✨