[GIS] Write out a WKT file from a loaded shapefile

Question

We are looking to load and display a shapefile, simple polygons, then write out a WKT string of that shapefile and have the user save it somewhere.

Does anyone have some code snippets of that very function or a link to a site that covers this need?

I imagine we will be using Geotools and java to do this.

Answer 1

You could use the JTS WKTWriter to convert geometries read in from the Shapefile to WKT and then save the strings to a file the user chose. Reading in a Shapefile and accessing the geometries are covered in the CRS tutorial.