Day 5: Preparing geographic data

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• Sourcing shapes
  • World shapes: Natural Earth Data
  • India shapes: Datameet
  • OSM India: Geofabrik updated daily
  • OSM cities: Mapzen Metro extracts updated weekly
• Import data into QGIS
  • Joining CSV to Shapes
  • Create new attributes using field calculator
  • Use SQL WHERE queries to filter features
• Processing in Qgis
  • Vector geoprocessing tools
  • Vector geometry tools to convert between areas, lines and points
• Enriching
• Converting