Working with geospatial data
In this section, we will look at some examples of tasks you might want to perform that involve using geospatial data in both vector and raster format.
Task – calculate the bounding box for each country in the world
In this slightly contrived example, we will make use of a shapefile to calculate the minimum and maximum latitude/longitude values for each country in the world. This "bounding box" can be used, among other things, to generate a map centered on a particular country. For example, the bounding box for Turkey would look like this:
Start by downloading the World Borders Dataset from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php ...
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