Exercise 3¶

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You can start working on your copy of Exercise 3 by accepting the GitHub Classroom assignment.

Exercise 3 is due by by 16:00 on Wednesday the 20th of November 2019 (day before the next practical session).

You can also take a look at the open course copy of Exercise 3 in the course GitHub repository (does not require logging in). Note that you should not try to make changes to this copy of the exercise, but rather only to the copy available via GitHub Classroom.

Hints¶

Coordinate reference systems¶

Remember the difference between defining a crs, and reprojecting a layer to a new crs! Before reprojecting, the layer should have a valid crs definition which you can check like this: data.crs.

defining a projection is done like this: data.crs = CRS.from_epsg(4326) (this command only updates the metadata about coordinate reference system which is stored in the class variable .crs, and does not modify the actual coordinate values. Do this only if the original crs definition is missing or invalid!)
re-projecting a layer, eg: data = data.to_crs(CRS.from_epsg(4326)) (this one will actually re-project the coordinates in the geometry-column AND re-define the .crs definition)

When writing a layer to shalefile, define the crs as in the Well-Known Text format. You can do the conversion like this, assuming that the dataframe already has a crs defined: data.crs = CRS(data.crs).to_wkt()-