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.

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¶

Lesson 2 - Introduction to geopandas

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

Lesson 2 - Coordinate reference systems

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