{"id":2249,"date":"2017-09-20T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:41:39","slug":"getting-started-on-geospatial-analysis-with-python-geojson-and-geopandas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/getting-started-on-geospatial-analysis-with-python-geojson-and-geopandas\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python GeoJSON and GeoPandas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/nyc-boros-768x393.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header col-md-12\">\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><span class=\"byline\">by\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/author\/lcordero\">Lesley Cordero<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0<span class=\"posted-on\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/geospatial-analysis-python-geojson-geopandas.html\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2017-08-14T12:06:42+00:00\">August 14, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"social-buttons\">As a native New Yorker, I would be a mess without Google Maps every single time I go anywhere outside the city. We take products like Google Maps for granted, but they\u2019re an important convenience. Products like Google or Apple Maps are built on foundations of geospatial technology.\u00a0At the center of these technologies are locations, their interactions and roles in a greater ecosystem of location services.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p>This field is referred to as\u00a0<em>geospatial analysis<\/em>. Geospatial analysis applies statistical analysis to data that has geographical or geometrical components. In this tutorial, we\u2019ll use Python to learn the basics of acquiring geospatial data, handling it, and visualizing it.\u00a0More specifically, we\u2019ll do some interactive visualizations of the United States!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/geospatial-analysis-python-geojson-geopandas.html\">https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/geospatial-analysis-python-geojson-geopandas.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15274509\">HN thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HN comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"c00\">Using geojson.io to visualise the GeoJSON seems like the wrong tool for the job; just use folium, it works perfectly in Jupyter Notebooks: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/python-visualization\/folium\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/github.com\/python-visualization\/folium<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"c00\">You might also be interested in GeoNotebook, a Jupyter Notebook extension for geospatial analysis \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OpenGeoscience\/geonotebook\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/github.com\/OpenGeoscience\/geonotebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"c00\">If you are interested in GIS, make sure to check out rasterio and Fiona to go with Shapely. All great tools for GIS in python.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"c00\">For JavaScript folks, there&#8217;s Turfjs from Mapbox.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/turfjs.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/turfjs.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Lesley Cordero\u00a0on\u00a0August 14, 2017 As a native New Yorker, I would be a mess without Google Maps every single time I go anywhere outside the city. We take products like Google Maps for granted, but they\u2019re an important convenience. Products like Google or Apple Maps are built on foundations of geospatial technology.\u00a0At the center of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,119],"tags":[385,386,387,126,162,335],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hesmid.nl\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}