Lesson 2 Overview

In this week, we will learn how to read and write spatial data, and how to deal with projections in Python using Geopandas -module and some useful data management functionalities.

1. Introduction to Geopandas
2. Managing map projections
3. Exercise 2: Working with geometric objects
4. Exercise 2 hints

Learning goals

After this week, you should know how to:

• Read and write data from/to Shapefile
• Create geometries into GeoDataFrame
• Change the coordinate reference system of the data

Sources

These materials are partly based on Geopandas documentation.