Lesson 2 Overview

In this lesson, we will learn how to read and write spatial data, and how to deal with projections in Python using the Geopandas -module and some useful data management functionalities.

  1. Git Version Control Basics
  2. Working with an IDE (Spyder)
  3. Introduction to Geopandas
  4. Managing map projections
  5. Exercise 2: Working with geometric objects
  6. Exercise 2 hints

Learning goals

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

The Git lessons are based on materials from The Carpentries - Software Carpentry Foundation

These materials are partly based on Geopandas documentation.

The lesson reuses materials from Henrikki Tenkanen from the University of Helsinki, under CC-BY-SA from from AutoGIS GitHub repository.