Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python

Summary

This chapter covered the critical components of GIS analysis including:

• The challenges of measuring on the curved surface of the Earth and solutions
• The basics of coordinate conversion between the geographic and UTM reference systems
• Reprojection using OGR (pretty much the only game in town worthwhile!)
• Details about editing shapefiles in pure Python using PyShp
• Performing spatial selections on data using geometry or attributes
• Creating thematic maps from scratch using only Python
• Importing data from spreadsheets
• Parsing GPS data from NMEA or GPX

As a geospatial analyst, you may be familiar with both GIS and remote sensing, but most analysts specialize in one field or the other. That is why this book approaches the fields in separate chapters, ...