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.

• Introduction to Geopandas
• Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS)

Learning goals

After this lesson, you should know how to:

• Read and write data from/to geodata files using Geopandas
• 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.