How to read a shapefile using Julia?

First, add the ArchGDAL.jl package by pressing ] inside a julia environment and typing:

add ArchGDAL

Then, to read a Shapefile:

using ArchGDAL

dataset = ArchGDAL.read("test.shp")
layer = ArchGDAL.getlayer(dataset, 0)

Then, you will be able to access individual features and their respective attributes and geometries (very similar to the GDAL Python bindings). Documentation can be found on: http://yeesian.com/ArchGDAL.jl/latest/features/