introduction.md

Geospatial Processing in Python

(using geopandas)

Agenda

• Introduction
• Cleaning Data
• IO and basic plotting
• Processing vector data
• Joins and spatial joins (time permitting)
• Basemaps in Contextily

What we will cover

• Vector data - points, lines, polygons
• How to clean data in a shapefile
• Reading and writing to spatial dataformats
• Creating GeoDataFrames
• Plotting data on maps
  • Using mapclassify for binning data
• Working with times
• Some discussion on projections and Coordinate Reference Systems
• Buffering data
• Selecting data by spatial relationships
  • Plots using data in an area
• Measuring distances and finding nearest neighbours
• Joining data on attributes
• Joining data based on spatial relationships

What we will explicitly not cover

• Raster data
• ArcGIS/QGIS flavours of Python
• Interactive maps - leaflet/folium