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 <../../notebooks/L2/geopandas-basics.ipynb>`__ 2. `Managing map projections <../../notebooks/L2/projections.ipynb>`__ 3. :doc:`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 ------- This lesson partly based on `Geopandas documentation `_. Lesson videos -------------- .. admonition:: Lesson 2 - Introduction to geopandas .. raw:: html

Vuokko Heikinheimo, University of Helsinki @ AutoGIS channel on Youtube.

**Contents:** - `Quiz 01:47 `__ - `Vector data I/O from different formats 06:20 `__ - `Geopandas intro 11:36 `__ - `Downloading input data 15:20 `__ - `Managing filepaths 19:37 `__ - `Reading a shapefile 23:12 `__ - `Writing a shapefile 39:15 `__ - `Grouping the data 47:56 `__ .. admonition:: Lesson 2 - Coordinate reference systems .. raw:: html

Vuokko Heikinheimo, University of Helsinki @ AutoGIS channel on Youtube.

**Contents:** - `Re-projecting Europe 04:15 `__ - `Defining different CRS formats 16:37 `__ - `Global map projections 32:12 `__ - `Exercise 2 41:39 `__