salem.read_shapefile¶
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salem.
read_shapefile
(fpath, cached=False)[source]¶ Reads a shapefile using geopandas.
For convenience, it adds four columns to the dataframe: [min_x, max_x, min_y, max_y]
Because reading a shapefile can take a long time, Salem provides a caching utility (cached=True). This will save a pickle of the shapefile in the cache directory.