Contents

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

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.

Lecture videos

Lesson 2.1 - Introduction to Geopandas

Henrikki Tenkanen, University of Helsinki @ AutoGIS channel on Youtube.

Lesson 2.2 - Managing map projections

Henrikki Tenkanen, University of Helsinki @ AutoGIS channel on Youtube.

Exercise 1 Introduction to Geopandas