For a Fiona-based command line tool I am wondering how to best to handle user-selected output file formats and drivers. Is there a ready-to-use way to select the driver based on the file extension? Ma

Hi all, I'm looking to use Fiona in a project to provide Python geopackage support, but would like to avoid users having to independently install GDAL to make it work, i.e. I'd like to make self-conta

I'm trying to overwrite a temporary file with fiona,open, but it throws an error. Is there a way to get around this?

Named schemas are a little more lightweight and seem well-suited to the purpose of the schema dict.

I try passing the object directly into fiona.open(), but it throws a type error: string argument expected, got 'bytes'

My application requires that uploaded shapefiles require .shp, .dbf, .shx, and .prj. Is there a way that fiona.open() checks for that?

Specifically, once I have opened the file and am accessing the data with fiona.Collection

Hi all, Fiona 1.8.8 is on PyPI now. Please see the change log for notes about the bug fixes and future changes in 1.9.0 and 2.0.0. https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L6-L30 Thi

Hi all, The original wheels for 1.8.8 that I uploaded on 2019-09-25 lacked libsqlite3 shared libraries and were defective. I've made new ones, uploaded them this evening, and then deleted the original

Hi all, Lack of support from the fiona package for GDAL 3.0 has become unbearable. We won't make you wait for 1.9.0 and will instead have a 1.8.9 release that is compatible with GDAL versions 1.11 thr

Hi all, 1.8.10 is on PyPI now. A new Windows bug has been found and so we'll have a 1.8.11 release early tomorrow.

Hi folks, I loaded a 5GB CSV file, turned lat/long into points, and have tried to save as shapefile and geopackage. At first, I ran into problems with datetime and tuple columns, which I've since turn

Hi I have been working with shapely and fiona for a few months now. I have an issue that I found mentioned on the github issues but the solution to it does not apply to mine. I was wondering where I c

Hi, I know this is not a fiona specific question but I figure since this kind of covers a variety of modules written by the same people (or at least understood) that I might get an answer here. I am a

Hi all, You may not notice the changes in 1.8.13 unless you're using poetry to install Fiona, but we do have 64-bit manylinux1 and macosx wheels for Python 3.8 for the first time. I hope you enjoy the

Hello: I hope this is the right place to ask a question. I am trying to figure out how to open a .shp while without all the other accompanying files. I THINK want to do this because I believe I don't

Hi, Fiona throws a "Failed to write record" RuntimeError when trying to write records to a GeoPackage if two or more attributes have equal names ignoring the case. I understand this is because GeoPack

I'm trying to load a .gdb.zip file in a Docker container using `fiona.listlayers()` but it says that it's not a supported format with the following exception: ``` File \"fiona/_shim.pyx\", line 83, in

Hello: I hope this is the right place to ask a question. I also hope I am not creating this topic twice; I tried emailing main@fiona.groups.io but it did not work. I am trying to figure out how to ope

Hi, is it possible to to retrieve SimpleData attributes from a KML document? I've opened a collection, and tried both KML and KMZ documents - and whilst I can see the "normal" KML attributes - I canno