Mastering pandas - Second Edition

Working with GeoPandas

We can use the GeoPandas library to read many GIS file formats (relying on the fiona library, which is an interface to GDAL/OGR) using the geopandas.read_file function.

Data can be read through shapefiles as well. In this section, we will look at an example of working with GeoPandas. We will explain how to read a shapefile that contains geospatial data, performing aggregations on it, sorting it, and finally plotting the required Geo DataFrame.

Use the following code to call in the required prerequisites libraries:

    import pandas as pd
    import geopandas
    import matplotlib as plt

Use the following code to read a shapefile that has geospatial information data:

countries = geopandas.read_file("ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp") ...