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:`Introduction to Geopandas <geopandas-basics>`
2. :doc:`Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) <crs-projections>`


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

 - Read and write data from/to Shapefile
 - Create geometries into GeoDataFrame
 - Understand the importance of and change the coordinate reference system of spatial data

Sources
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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>`_.