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Lecture 1: Introduction to Python GIS and geometric objects.

Lesson 1 - Introduction to Python-GIS

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What we have learned so far?

During the Period I we focused on understanding the basic principles in programming and learned most of the basic functionalities in Python. We have learned many useful and general skills on doing things in a reproducible manner using programming, that can help you in many ways on your future projects or job.

Even if you would not use programming in your work in the future, it is extremely useful to understand the basic idea how programming and computers work as they are highly integrated into our society and part of our daily work in almost every field. So this is a good starting point to proceed and learn more about programming! One especially nice thing in programming is that you learn something new and cool all the time. Even after many years of programming, you find new tricks and tools that you haven't heard of earlier that can make your life easier in many ways.

During this week's lesson, we will get an overview of what Python has to offer in terms of GIS and working with spatial data, and learn the basics of Geometric objects and Geospatial Data Model.

Lesson overview

• Introduction to Python GIS
  • General overview of the latter part of the course
  • What sort of tools are available for doing GIS in pure Python?
• Spatial Data Model / Geometric Objects
  • Point
  • LineString
  • Polygon
  • Pro -tips
• Exercise 1: Working with Geometric Objects

Resources

• Past lesson materials
  • Plotting in Python
  • Intro to Numpy
  • Reading and Writing files
  • Functions and modules
  • Control flow
  • Intro to version control and GitHub
  • Writing script files
  • Working on the exercises
• Web pages
  • Shapely documentation
  • Codecademy's Learn to program in Python
  • Software Carpentry's programming in Python
• Books
  • Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python: An effective guide to geographic information systems and remote sensing analysis using Python 3
  • Python for Data Analysis: Data wrangling with Pandas, NumPy and iPython
  • Python Geospatial Development: Develop sophisticated mapping applications from scratch using Python 3 tools for geospatial development
  • Python Scripting for ArcGIS
  • Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to work with topology, overlays, indoor routing, and web application analysis with Python
  • Learn Python the Hard Way
  • Dive into Python 3