write_shp

write_shp(G, outdir)[source]

Writes a networkx.DiGraph to two shapefiles, edges and nodes. Nodes and edges are expected to have a Well Known Binary (Wkb) or Well Known Text (Wkt) key in order to generate geometries. Also acceptable are nodes with a numeric tuple key (x,y).

“The Esri Shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software [1].”

Parameters
GNetworkX graph

Directed graph

outdirdirectory path

Output directory for the two shapefiles.

Returns
None

References

1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile

Examples

nx.write_shp(digraph, ‘/shapefiles’) # doctest +SKIP