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. Introduction to Geopandas

  2. Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS)

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.