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Create PNG from Shapefile - handle multiple parts
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| import shapefile | |
| import pngcanvas | |
| # Open shapefile with Python Shapefile Library | |
| shapefile_name = 'REPLACE_WITH_SHAPEFILE_NAME' # e.g. england_oa_2001 | |
| r = shapefile.Reader(shapefile_name) | |
| # Determine bounding box x and y distances and then calculate an xyratio | |
| # that can be used to determine the size of the generated PNG file. A xyratio | |
| # of greater than one means that PNG is to be a landscape type image whereas |