Overview

During this week we will learn a few really useful and commonly used GIS functionalities using Geopandas, namely:

1. Geocoding addresses to Points (and vice versa)
2. Conducting Point in Polygon queries
3. Making Spatial joins
4. Finding Nearest neighbour of a geometry

Learning goals

After this weeks’ lesson you should be able to:

• Do geocoding, i.e. converting addresses into Points (and vice versa)
• Conduct a Point in Polygon queries
• Read data from KML file
• Make spatial and table joins between layers
• Find the nearest neighbour from Point -objects.

Sources

Following materials are partly based on documentation of Geopandas, geopy, Google, Pandas, Shapely, and Lawhead, J. (2013), Chapters I and V.