1   The Fiona User Manual

Author:Sean Gillies, <sean.gillies@gmail.com> Revision:1.0 Date:26 December 2011 Copyright:This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Abstract:This document explains how to use the Fiona package for reading and writing geospatial data files.

1.1   Introduction

When would you want to use Fiona?

• If your data is in a RDBMS like PostGIS, use SQLAlchemy or GeoAlchemy.
• If your data is served via HTTP from CouchDB or CartoDB, etc, use httplib2 or the provider’s Python API.
• If your data is in local files in shapefile, GPX, or other such formats, use Fiona.