gdal/ogr: How to really crop a shapefile?
gdal, gis, ogr, shapefile
Solution
Use GDAL's ogr2ogr command-line utility. If you have a file `Europe.shp` which has a spatial reference with units of degrees, then use the `-clipsrc` option with decimal degrees to make a new shapefile:
ogr2ogr -clipsrc -5.8 41 10 51.5 France.shp Europe.shp
There is also an example at the ogr2ogr page with France used as an example.
Problem
Given a SHP file corresponding to European countries, and... Given defined area corresponting to France such : ``` West : 005° 48' W East : 010° E North : 051° 30' N South : 041° N ``` How to get only the dots/geometries which intersects my defined area with gdal ? so my crop indeed is a real crop, which just keep the necessary geometries. Strong preference to `gdal`, `ogr` or console solutions.