Data Science Bookcamp

11 Geographic location visualization and analysis

This section covers

• Computing the distance between geographic locations
• Plotting locations on a map using the Cartopy library
• Extracting geo-coordinates from location names
• Finding location names in text using regular expressions

People have relied on location information since before the dawn of recorded history. Cave dwellers once carved maps of hunting routes into mammoth tusks. Such maps evolved as civilizations flourished. The ancient Babylonians fully mapped the borders of their vast empire. Much later, in 3000 BC, Greek scholars improved cartography using mathematical innovations. The Greeks discovered that the Earth was round and accurately computed the planet’s circumference. Greek ...