New tools (toys?) to consider incorporating for this year

[emiliom]

Updated: 2017-9-19

• Geoplot
• OSMnx
• GeoNotebook, a Jupyter notebook extension for geospatial visualization and analysis
• A package Anthony Arendt mentioned during his xarray (nDArray) tutorial at GeoHackweek 2016, which I believe enabled (or aimed to) vector mapping and masking capabilities to work nicely with xarray. I think it was regionmask

[lsetiawan]

Geoplot

I have ran into my first issue for Geoplot due to the release of Geopandas. Seems like it is dependant on an older version of Geopandas. When I try importing import geoplot as gplt I get ImportError:

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-10-ef1162e9a1a5> in <module>()
     15 import geopandas as gpd
     16 from geopandas import (GeoSeries, GeoDataFrame)
---> 17 import geoplot as gplt
     18 
     19 data_pth = "../data"

//anaconda/envs/workenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/geoplot/__init__.py in <module>()
      7 # from .utils import (gaussian_points, classify_clusters, gaussian_polygons, gaussian_multi_polygons,
      8 #                     uniform_random_global_points, uniform_random_global_network)
----> 9 from .geoplot import *
     10 from .quad import *
     11 from .crs import *

//anaconda/envs/workenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/geoplot/geoplot.py in <module>()
      4 
      5 import geopandas as gpd
----> 6 from geopandas.plotting import __pysal_choro, norm_cmap
      7 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
      8 import matplotlib as mpl

ImportError: cannot import name 'norm_cmap'

[emiliom]

Thanks for testing geoplot. Let's skip it, then. We don't have time to deal with issues involving GeoPandas compatibility. If I have time I may mention geoplot in the tutorial, but not use it directly.

[emiliom]

Note to self: The import geoplot statement is no longer a problem, with the current conda environment.