Overview

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

1. Geocoding addresses to Points (and vice versa)
2. Retrieve OpenStreetMap data
3. Data classifications

Learning goals

After this lesson you should be able to:

• Do geocoding, i.e. converting addresses into Points (and vice versa)
• Download data from OpenStreetMap using Python
• Reclassify data based on different criteria (custom or common classifiers).

Sources

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