July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
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Solving the pollution reporting problem
From what you have learned in this chapter, you can now solve the IoT pollution sensor data by congressional districts problem introduced earlier. Follow these general steps using either Python code or spatial query functions in a database such as PostGIS:
- Download a shapefile for U.S. Interstates such as the U.S. National Transportation Atlas Interstate Highways shapefile available from the University of Iowa (ftp://ftp.igsb.uiowa.edu/gis_library/USA/us_interstates.htm).
- Download a shapefile for US congressional districts such as the TIGER/Line Shapefile available from the US Census (https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php?year=2016&layergroup=Congressional+Districts+%28115%29).