Lesson 1 overview¶
In this lesson we will introduce a spatial data model (geometric objects) and some basics of how spatial data can be manipulated in pure Python.
Learning goals¶
After this lesson you should:
- have an idea of what kind of tools are available for doing GIS in Python
- know how to install Python packages using conda
- know what kind of geometric objects are available
- know how to create different kind of geometries using Shapely
- know how to read coordinates from a file and create Points based on those
Sources¶
This lesson reuses materials from Henrikki Tenkanen from the University of Helsinki, under CC-BY-SA from from AutoGIS GitHub repository.