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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

by Joel Lawhead
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
456 pages
10h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Aggregating geometry

GIS vector datasets are typically composed of point, line, or polygon features. One of the principles of GIS is that things that are closer together geographically are more related than things that are further apart. When you have a set of related features, often, it's too much detail for the analysis you're trying to accomplish. It can be useful to generalize them to speed up processing or simplify a map. This type of operation is called aggregation. A common example of aggregation is to combine a set of local political boundaries into a larger political boundary such as counties into a state or states into a country or countries into continents.

In this example, we'll do just that. We'll convert a dataset comprising ...

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