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I'm trying to receive a simple .shp file, without been zipped, via web request and convert it to a geopandas dataframe. I tried to use io.BytesIO to wrap the file but also didn't worked.. I tried to load directly to geopandas but this is what happened:

File "fiona/_shim.pyx", line 81, in fiona._shim.gdal_open_vector fiona.errors.DriverError: '/vsimem/9ead9a26f6de48e987cc6474e377012b/9ead9a26f6de48e987cc6474e377012b' not recognized as a supported file format.

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import geopandas as gpd ... file = request.files[filename] if file and allowed_file(filename): geo2 = gpd.read_file(file) print(geo2)
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  • Shapefiles have at least three components. .shp without .dbf isn't of much use. Commented Feb 18, 2021 at 18:36
  • @Vince thank you for your answering but I trying to replicate the same as I have where I'm reading the file locally and then converting to geoJSON. Commented Feb 18, 2021 at 18:51
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    What exactly is returned from this request? It should be a zipped file containing a shp, dbf, and shx files. Commented Feb 18, 2021 at 20:45
  • Only a .shp. Thank you @LeonPowałka, Since the geopandas.read_file() only requires the path for the .shp I thought was not necessary the corresponding dbf and shx files. Commented Feb 18, 2021 at 22:51

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Although you only pass the .shp filepath to geopandas.read_file(), geopandas requires the corresponding .dbf and .shx files to exist and determines their paths relative to the .shp.

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