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.

Geometric Objects - Spatial Data Model

• Overview of Geometric Objects and Shapely-module
• Point-object
• LineString-object
• Polygon-object
• Reading X/Y Coordinates from files
• Optionally: Geometry Collections

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.