IDL读取Shapefile文件

1.Open the Shapefile

Attention:
Need to destroy the object, or might arouse insufficient memory!

Create: OBJ_new

Destroy: OBJ_Destroy


pro read_shapefile
shapefile='C:/ESRI/ESRIDATA/WORLD/country.shp' ; shapefile file path
oshp=Obj_New('IDLffShape',filename)
print, oshp


; process code, to be added ...


Obj_destroy,oshp ;destroy the object
end

if error happen, oshp will be -1，else the struct

2.Obtain the Attribute Info

Need to read the attribute info. Shapefile is made up of "Entity" and "Attribute table".

Entity contains point, polyline, polygon and etc.

Attribute table contains structure of attr, number of field, number of record, etc

 

Global attribute of shapefile
How many entities and record?