About the Session
Topics:- Quick overview of maps, projections and coordinate systems.- Maps: Raster and vector, existing technologies, tile maps. [Workshop: OpenStreetMap and custom tilemaps]- Geospatial data types (Points, LineStrings, Polygons) and formats (GeoJSON, WKL, Shapefile) [Workshop: Query, export and import data online with geojson.io and OverPass Turbo]- Behind the scenes - Standing on the shoulders of giants: GEOS, shapely (and GDAL, proj) [Workshop: Creating and manipulating geometries with shapely]- Crash intro to pandas + Geospatial data analysis with GeoPandas [Workshop: Reading, displaying, filtering and processing geospatial data with GeoPandas] Requirements:- Participants should have at least basic Python background.- PC+Python+All required libraries installed before the workshop - goepandas, jupyterlab and a few more.The spoken language used during the workshop is **Hebrew**. All the written materials are in English.
