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.

1. Geometric Objects - Spatial Data Model

• Overview of Geometric Objects and Shapely -module

• Point -object

• LineString -object

• Polygon -object

• Geometry collections (optional)

Assignment 1

The assignment will be announced in Moodle

Learning goals

After this lesson you should:

• 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.