6: Vector data processing

Here we introduce basics of vector data processing in Python. You will learn to work with geographic objects in python, read and write vector data, work with coordinate reference systems and do various spatial analysis tasks using geopandas and other open source Python libraries.

Sections:

• Introduction to geographic data objects in Python
• Introduction to spatial data analysis with geopandas
• Preparing GeoDataFrames from geographic data
• Geometric data manipulations
• Working with Map Projections
• Geocoding
• Operations between multiple datasets
• Exercises