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Overview#
Before we start to work with entire data sets next week, we first have to become familiar with basic geometric objects (primitives): in the centre of this week’s lesson stand points, lines, and polygons.
We will learn how to create and manipulate ‘simple features’ in Python, using the Python package shapely.
Learning goals:#
After this lesson, you will be able to:
find Python packages for GIS and spatial analysis,
understand and describe how geometric objects (points, lines, polygons) are handled and stored by shapely, and
create geometries given their coordinate values.