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.
Learning goals¶
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¶
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.