Lesson 2 Overview
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In this lesson, we will learn how to read and write spatial data, and how to deal with projections in Python using the `Geopandas <http://geopandas.org/>`_ -module
and some useful data management functionalities.

1. :doc:`Git Version Control Basics <Introduction-GIT>`
2. :doc:`Working with an IDE (Spyder) <spyder-ide>`
3. :doc:`Introduction to Geopandas <geopandas-basics>`
4. :doc:`Managing map projections <projections>`
5. :doc:`Exercise 2: Working with geometric objects <ex-2>`
6. :doc:`Exercise 2 hints <exercise-2-hints>`

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    7. :doc:`More Git hints for the interested reader <more-git-hints>`

Learning goals
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After this lesson, you should know how to:

 - use basic Git commands
 - Read and write data from/to Shapefile
 - Create geometries into GeoDataFrame
 - Change the coordinate reference system of the data

Sources
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The Git lessons are based on materials from `The Carpentries - Software Carpentry Foundation <http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/>`_

These materials are partly based on `Geopandas documentation <http://geopandas.org/>`_.

The lesson reuses materials from Henrikki Tenkanen from the University of Helsinki, under CC-BY-SA from `from AutoGIS GitHub repository <https://github.com/Automating-GIS-processes/2017>`_.