Lesson overview

In this week’s lesson we will introduce you 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)

2. Exercise 1: Working with geometric objects

3. Exercise 1 hints

Learning goals

After this week you should:

• have an idea of what kind of tools are available for doing GIS in Python
• know how to install Python packages using conda
• 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