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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Along with the installation of GDAL comes a set of Python scripts that can be used for specialized geospatial tasks. These scripts can be run directly from a Jupyter Notebook or terminal, along with a specified dataset. You can find all of the scripts inside of the scripts directory of your local gdal file folder, which on a Windows machine might be similar to the following path:

C:\Users\Username\Anaconda3\pkgs\gdal-2.2.2-py36_1\scripts

As you can see from the list of Python scripts in this folder, almost all of them are for GDAL rather than OGR. All of these Python scripts can be run from a Jupyter Notebook or a terminal. Using a Jupyter Notebook, you can use the magic command %run to execute your Python script, whereas using a ...

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