Toblerity/Fiona

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fiona is a Python library (with a CLI) for reading and writing vector geographic data in formats like Shapefile and GeoPackage, built on top of GDAL/OGR. It streams features modeled on GeoJSON through file-like Collection objects for productive, readable geospatial I/O code.

Use cases

• read and write shapefiles in python
• convert geospatial vector data between formats
• read geopackage features into python
• write geojson to a gis file format
• batch process gis vector files from the command line
• read cloud-stored geospatial data files

When to choose

• you need simple, Pythonic read/write access to vector GIS formats without dealing with raw GDAL bindings
• you want to stream features one at a time from large files or cloud/virtual filesystems
• you plan to combine it with Shapely for geometry transformations

When to avoid

• you need raster data processing rather than vector features
• you require GDAL format drivers omitted from the pip wheels, such as GML, and cannot build from source or use conda
• you need spatial analysis methods on features - Fiona features are plain data classes, so use GeoPandas or Shapely instead

Facets

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file-system cli parser developer-tools python cli cross-platform gis gdal ogr shapefile geopackage vector-data geojson cython geospatial data-engineering

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