Motivation for the course¶
General overview¶
Now that you are familiar with the basics of Python programming it is time to apply those skills to geographic data analysis. During the automating GIS processes course you will learn how to deal with spatial data and analyze it using Python and various libraries that have been developed for GIS-related tasks.
Learning objectives¶
At the end of the course you should be able to:
read / write spatial data from/to different file formats
work with coordinate reference systems
geocode data from addresses to coordinates and vice versa
apply geometric operations (intersect, union)
reclassify data based on conditions
apply spatial queries
conduct simple spatial analyses
Visualize data and create (interactive) maps, such as following: