viewinline

A new no-fuss way to visualize your vector data and rasters right in the #terminal: viewinline is a lightweight #Python utility by Keiko Nomura that renders #GeoTIFF-s, #GeoPackage-s, #GeoJSON-s, and #Shapefile-s instantly in #iterm2 (and other compatible terminals).
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

November 4, 2025

Finally you can view your shapefiles in your terminal!1 viewline is a new Python-based and MIT-licensed utility by Keiko Nomura for iterm22 and other terminals or CLIs3 that support inline display. Besides Shapefiles, viewinline supports GeoPackages, TIFF and GeoJSON files. Very simple, very light-weight, and very non-interactive. But you can:

and do a few more things. Here’s a short demo by the author:

Footnotes

  1. /s↩︎

  2. A popular terminal app on Mac OS↩︎

  3. Command line interfaces↩︎