We have to redefine the way we do our geospatial analysis. It is not enough to know the "tool" but to master the "process" if we want to provide spatial solutions for the always bigger geospatial data available. We have done a simple process of extracting vertices from polygons, lines and points inside a polygon in Python, but not a simple and declarative script but as a Python class.

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This is the Python code that runs the geospatial class:

from geospatialClass.insidePolygon import extractVertices

#Create an object
insidePoints = extractVertices()

#Open limit layers and definition layers
#Limit layer is allways a polygon
insidePoints.addLimit('basin','../In/modelExtension_v1.shp')
#Layers can be polygons,rivers and points
insidePoints.addLayer('facilities','../In/mineFacilities_v1.shp') #polygon
insidePoints.addLayer('river','../In/riverNetwork_v1.shp') #linestring
insidePoints.addLayer('observation','../In/observationPoints_v1.shp') #points

#Generate point pair array
insidePoints.verticesAsPairArray()

#Export vertices
insidePoints.exportVertices('../Out/verticesInsidePolygon.shp')