Batch setting the projection definition of a folder full of Shapefiles

Working with one Shapefile is fine but working with tens or hundreds of files is something else. In such a scenario, we'll need automation to get a job done fast.

We have a folder that contains several Shapefiles that are all in the same coordinate system but do not have a .prj file. We want to create a .prj file for each Shapefile in the current directory.

This script is a modified version of the previous code example that could write a .prj file for a single Shapefile into a batch process that can run over several Shapefiles.

How to do it...

We have a folder with many Shapefiles and we would like to create a new .prj file for each Shapefile in this folder, so let's get started:

1. Create a new Python file named ch02_05_batch_shp_prj.py in your /ch02/code/working/ directory and add the following code:

   #!/usr/bin/env python
   # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
   
   import urllib
   import os
   from osgeo import osr
   
   
   def create_epsg_wkt_esri...