Lesson 5 Overview¶

This lesson will focus on learning how to create beautiful maps in Python. We already covered the basics of plotting in Python during the Geo-Python course week 7. As you might remember from that lesson, there are many different Python modules that can be used for making visualizations, and many of them also allows you to create different kinds of maps.

During this lesson, we will the use of these modules for plotting static and interactive maps:

Matplotlib (static maps, integrated into Geopandas)

Folium (interactive Web maps on Leaflet)

Contextily (for adding basemaps)

Other useful modules to check out (not covered in these course materials):

Plotly express (interactive plots and maps, install using conda install -c conda-forge plotly)
Plotly Dash (interactive analytics dashboards)
HoloViews and GeoViews
Bokeh (interactive plots)

Learning goals¶

After this lesson you should be able to:

Create a static map using geopandas / matplotlib / contextily

Create a simple interactive map using Folium