The WKT Parser was gernerated using grako https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grako

The ebnf file is the translation of http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk/doc/bnf-wkt.txt

The bnf to ebnf conversion was guided by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14922242/how-to-convert-bnf-to-ebnf

The generation of parse.py is as easy as: /path/to/grako Wkt.ebnf -o parse.py

parsewkt is continually tested with Travis CI

Implementation Status

Currently implemented is parsing from WKT to a __geo_interface__ compliant dictionary for the following types:

• POINT
• LINESTRING
• POLYGON
• MULTIPOINT
• MULTILINESTRING
• MULTIPOLYGON
• GEOMETRYCOLLECTION

The parser can parse the following types but they are currently not translated into python objects:

• COMPOUNDCURVE
• CIRCULARSTRING
• CURVEPOLYGON
• MULTICURVE
• POLYHEDRALSURFACE
• TIN
• TRIANGLE

Rationale

The parser was written to have a clean and complete parser for WKT. Other WKT to python parsers use regular expression to do the same and are more or less complete. I wanted to have a reference implementation that could handle any kind of valid WKT that you throw at it. You can also use it as a reference if you want to write your own parser with grako.

Usage

>>> from parsewkt import from_wkt
>>> gc = """GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(
...           POINT(99 98),
...           LINESTRING(1 1, 3 3),
...           POLYGON((0 0, 0 1, 1 1, 0 0)),
...           POLYGON((0 0, 0 9, 9 9, 9 0, 0 0), (5 5, 5 6, 6 6, 5 5)),
...           MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0, 0 9, 9 9, 9 0, 0 0), (5 5, 5 6, 6 6, 5 5)))
...         )"""
>>> from_wkt(gc)
{'type': 'GeometryCollection', 'geometries': (
    {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': (99.0, 98.0)},
    {'type': 'LineString', 'coordinates': ((1.0, 1.0), (3.0, 3.0))},
    {'type': 'Polygon', 'coordinates': (((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 1.0), (1.0, 1.0), (0.0, 0.0)),)},
    {'type': 'Polygon', 'coordinates': (((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 9.0), (9.0, 9.0), (9.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0)), ((5.0, 5.0), (5.0, 6.0), (6.0, 6.0), (5.0, 5.0)))},
    {'type': 'MultiPolygon', 'coordinates': ((((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 9.0), (9.0, 9.0), (9.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0)), ((5.0, 5.0), (5.0, 6.0), (6.0, 6.0), (5.0, 5.0))),)})}

>>> tri = """TRIANGLE((0 0 0,0 1 0,1 1 0,0 0 0))"""
>>> from_wkt(tri)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/.../parsewkt/parsewkt/wkt.py", line 307, in from_wkt
    raise NotImplementedError
NotImplementedError

License

parsewkt is Copyright (C) 2013 by Christian Ledermann

You may use the tool under the terms of the BSD-style license described in the enclosed LICENSE.txt file.