Sampling random points in LINESTRING geometry

[juliohm]

@miguelborrero

I mean like: I have a vector of (x,y) coordinates which I read from a shapefile and I want to form a polygon geometry using these points as vertices and then calculate the area or sample within the polygon etc?

You can load the polygons directly with GeoIO.jl (explained in the book):

using GeoIO

geotable = GeoIO.load("file.shp")

area.(geotable.geometry)