reading in .shp files

[robinsandfort]

Hi everyone,
I struggle reading in shape files:
with
shp = utilities.read_file(input="{}/test_read_file_boxes_projected.shp".format(tmpdir))

I used:
shape = get_data("shape//DJI_20240911092253_0119_Z.shp")
shp = utilities.read_file(input=shape)
and
shp = utilities.read_file(shape)

I do have an image_path column and I tried different ways to point it to the image position.
It is in the same folder as the shapefile

The output is:
Found image_path column in shapefile, using shape/DJI_20240911092253_0119_Z.JPG
Geometry type of shapefile is Polygon

but also:

CPLE_OpenFailedError: shape/DJI_20240911092253_0119_Z.JPG: No such file or directory

Any ideas?
Greetings,
Robin

[ethanwhite]

Hi @robinsandfort - read_data() is taking a file path as input. So you want something like

# Full path version
 shp = utilities.read_file(input="/full/path/to/test_read_file_boxes_projected.shp")

# Relative path version
 shp = utilities.read_file(input="path/to/test_read_file_boxes_projected.shp")

get_data() is only for access data we distribute with the package for testing/examples.

The stuff with {} and .format(tmpdir) is because this docs example was copied from our tests. We'll put it on the list to clean that up since it's definitely confusing.

[ethanwhite]

I've opened a PR to make these docs easier to understand #783