SHPCENTRD(1)

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💖 SHPCENTRD(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the shplib girlies club 🎀 this one's shpcentrd, and she's here to find the center of the universe for your polygons (well, the XY centroid, but like, same energy) ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

shpcentrd — computes XY centroid for polygon shapefiles

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

shpcentrd shp_file new_shp_file

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • shp_file — the name of an existing polygon shapefile. like, it has to already exist, bestie, we're not manifesting it here 💅
  • new_shp_file — the name of the point shapefile that will be created. yes, a point shapefile — one lil centroid point per polygon, so cute 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

shpcentrd apolygonfile pointcentrd

👑 AUTHOR 👑

shpcentrd is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam — icon behavior, no cap. This guide was created by Eduardo Patoo Kanegae and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw. the way they all contributed... obsessed 💜

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

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

and that's the whole vibe 💖 this page is from March 2026, straight outta shplib — go find some centroids, bestie, you got this 🧚⭐

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