Geocoding for Energy Companies
How geocoding solves common pain points for energy companies: asset location, network maintenance, solar park planning, and field-to-office integration with accurate maps and AI.
Insights about project management, GIS, and how technology is transforming industries operating in the physical world.
How geocoding solves common pain points for energy companies: asset location, network maintenance, solar park planning, and field-to-office integration with accurate maps and AI.
Zip the .shp, .shx, .dbf and .prj, drop the zip on a free browser viewer, and the layer draws with its attribute table. Step by step, then the three things that go wrong — no .prj, accents mangled, two Shapefiles in one zip — each reproduced with GDAL 3.13.3 and the live viewer, outputs quoted.
A Shapefile is five files, one shape type and a .dbf from 1998. We built them with GDAL 3.13.3, deleted the sidecars one by one, read the .dbf bytes and quoted every error: names cut at 10 characters, Latin-1 by default, NULL equals empty, the .prj that puts your layer in the ocean, and the fixes.
KML is XML, KMZ is that XML zipped, and <coordinates> are lon,lat in WGS 84 — always. We ran nine experiments with GDAL's KML and LIBKML drivers: the swapped pair that lands in the South Atlantic, the KML driver that drops every attribute on read, styles lost in conversion, and the fixes.
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