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write_shp

write_shp(G, outdir)

Writes a networkx.DiGraph to two shapefiles, edges and nodes. Nodes and edges are expected to have a Well Known Binary (Wkb) or Well Known Text (Wkt) key in order to generate geometries. Also acceptable are nodes with a numeric tuple key (x,y).

“The Esri Shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software [1].”

Parameters:outdir (directory path) – Output directory for the two shapefiles. Returns: Return type:None

Examples

nx.write_shp(digraph, ‘/shapefiles’) # doctest +SKIP

References

[1]	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile