Go binding to the shapefile library.
The Esri shapefile, or simply a shapefile, is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system software.
ESRI Shapefile Technical Description: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
Shapefile C Library: http://shapelib.maptools.org
For Ubuntu Linux, install with:
apt-get install shapelib
For OS X, install with:
brew install shapelib
go get -u github.com/hailiang/go-shapefile
See examples/example.go for basic example usage to load a .shp file (and its .dbf companian file).
go run examples/example.go map/bou2_4p.shp