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GIS examples for teaching #53

Open jlperla opened 6 years ago

jlperla commented 6 years ago

It might be useful to show how to work with basic GIS data. We have an ArcGIS license at UBC, which might help.

This is used in geographic RD models, and others. An example:

Basic visualization?

jlperla commented 6 years ago

http://geopandas.org/

jlperla commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/ResidentMario/geoplot

arnavs commented 6 years ago

This is a good idea. Also http://geojson.org/.

jlperla commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/mwaugh0328/data_bootcamp_spring_2018/blob/master/week13/geopandas.ipynb

Some relevant libraries I was told about: fiona, cartopy, shapely, basemap, geocoder, pyproj