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Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

By : Diener
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Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

4.4 (5)
By: Diener

Overview of this book

Geospatial development links your data to places on the Earth’s surface. Its analysis is used in almost every industry to answer location type questions. Combined with the power of the Python programming language, which is becoming the de facto spatial scripting choice for developers and analysts worldwide, this technology will help you to solve real-world spatial problems. This book begins by tackling the installation of the necessary software dependencies and libraries needed to perform spatial analysis with Python. From there, the next logical step is to prepare our data for analysis; we will do this by building up our tool box to deal with data preparation, transformations, and projections. Now that our data is ready for analysis, we will tackle the most common analysis methods for vector and raster data. To check or validate our results, we will explore how to use topology checks to ensure top-quality results. This is followed with network routing analysis focused on constructing indoor routes within buildings, over different levels. Finally, we put several recipes together in a GeoDjango web application that demonstrates a working indoor routing spatial analysis application. The round trip will provide you all the pieces you need to accomplish your own spatial analysis application to suit your requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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A. Other Geospatial Python Libraries
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B. Mapping Icon Libraries
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Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "If workon for some reason does not start your virtual environment, you can start it simply by executing source /home/mdiener/.venvs/pygeoan_cb/bin/activate from the command line."

A block of code is set as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from osgeo import ogr
shp_driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')
shp_dataset = shp_driver.Open(r'../geodata/schools.shp')
shp_layer = shp_dataset.GetLayer()
shp_srs = shp_layer.GetSpatialRef()
print shp_srs

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-pip

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Select Route To: and enter 2 to see the second floor options."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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