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Geospatial Development By Example with Python

By : Pablo Carreira

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Geospatial Development By Example with Python

5 (4)

By: Pablo Carreira

Overview of this book

From Python programming good practices to the advanced use of analysis packages, this book teaches you how to write applications that will perform complex geoprocessing tasks that can be replicated and reused. Much more than simple scripts, you will write functions to import data, create Python classes that represent your features, and learn how to combine and filter them. With pluggable mechanisms, you will learn how to visualize data and the results of analysis in beautiful maps that can be batch-generated and embedded into documents or web pages. Finally, you will learn how to consume and process an enormous amount of data very efficiently by using advanced tools and modern computers’ parallel processing capabilities.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Preparing the Work Environment

1. Preparing the Work Environment

Installing Python

Python packages and package manager

Installing packages and required software

Installing NumPy

Installing GDAL and OGR

Installing Mapnik

Installing Shapely

Installing other packages directly from pip

Installing an IDE

Creating the book project

Programming and running your first example

Transforming the coordinate system and calculating the area of all countries

Sort the countries by area size

Summary

2. The Geocaching App

2. The Geocaching App

Building the basic application structure

Downloading geocaching data

Opening the file and getting its contents

Combining functions into an application

Setting your current location

Finding the closest point

Summary

3. Combining Multiple Data Sources

3. Combining Multiple Data Sources

Representing geographic data

Making data homogeneous

Importing geocaching data

Integrating new functionality into the application

Summary

4. Improving the App Search Capabilities

4. Improving the App Search Capabilities

Working with polygons

Using Shapely to handle geometries

Importing polygons

Getting the attributes' values

Importing lines

Converting the spatial reference system and units

Geometry relationships

Filtering by attributes and relations

Filtering by multiple attributes

Integrating with the app

Summary

5. Making Maps

5. Making Maps

Knowing Mapnik

Creating utility functions to generate maps

Styling maps

Using Python objects as a source of data

Exporting geo objects

Creating the Map Maker app

Summary

6. Working with Remote Sensing Images

6. Working with Remote Sensing Images

Understanding how images are represented

Processing remote sensing images and data

Building an image processing pipeline

Summary

7. Extract Information from Raster Data

7. Extract Information from Raster Data

Getting the basic statistics

Creating color classified images

Blending images

Showing statistics with colors

Summary

8. Data Miner App

8. Data Miner App

Measuring execution time

Code profiling

Storing information on a database

Importing massive amount of data

Searching for data and crossing information

Summary

9. Processing Big Images

9. Processing Big Images

Working with satellite images

Memory and images

Processing images in chunks

Creating image compositions

Summary

10. Parallel Processing

10. Parallel Processing

Multiprocessing basics

Block iteration

Improving the image resolution

Summary

Index

Index

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Installing an IDE

IDEs are fancy text editors with tools and inspections regarding programming languages. You can surely use any text editor or IDE of your preference; none of the tasks in this book depends on the IDE, but an IDE will facilitate our work a lot because the suggested configuration will help you avoid mistakes and save time on typing, running, and debugging your code. The IDE checks the code for you and detects underlying errors; it even guesses what you are typing and completes the statements for you, runs the code with a simple command, and if there are exceptions, it provides links to the place where the exception occurred. For Windows or Linux, go to http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ and click on the big orange button Get Pycharm Now. On the next page, select the free community edition.

Windows

Here are the steps you need to perform:

After the download finishes, open the downloaded file; the Setup Wizard will pop up.
Click on Next, and in the installation options, check both of the boxes: Create Desktop shortcut and Create associations.
Click on Next and continue the installation.

Linux

Perform the following steps:

Unpack the downloaded file in a directory.
To open PyCharm, run pycharm.sh from the bin subdirectory. You can create a shortcut to it if you wish.

Tip

Downloading the example code

You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.

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