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/>`_.