Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools for Python: A Quick Guide

https://makepath.com/open-source-spatial-analysis-tools-a-quick-guide/

by Pablo1856 • 6 years ago

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Pablo18565• 6 years ago

We put together a list of free spatial analysis tools for Python. Please let us know your comments and/or ideas.

phlarebot• 6 years ago

Cool, Might have to write a python submodule to use some of this sometime, since we do have a lot of geo data.

bark0111• 6 years ago

Great article!

guynirpaz• 6 years ago

Great article, very well written and clear. Also with COVID - very relevant for many of us.

joemellin• 6 years ago

Agreed on the Covid part.

Pablo18565• 6 years ago

Thank you! Yes, we are putting these to work on the COVID issue with the Safegraph data consortium

jssmith• 6 years ago

Would any of these be useful for working with Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data? There are some web interfaces but analyzing and visualizing with Python would be more flexible.

(https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov...).

Pablo18565• 6 years ago

Absolutely! The team at makepath is currently working with Safegraph data to tackle Covid along with SUNY-ESF. I will pass this along to the team. https://makepath.com/covid-19-public-private-partnership-syr...

sfalc• 6 years ago

Awesome list. I've been playing with Fiona for a few years, but I'll need to take a look at some of these other modules like Shapely.

raminnn• 6 years ago

Great Insight!

slbenso1• 6 years ago

This is a great summary, I'll take a harder look at these

johnsmith12309• 6 years ago

Thanks for putting this together, Pablo. Super insightful!

chalaschek• 6 years ago

Great list!

kndjckt• 6 years ago

No mention of H3! The hexagonal spatial index https://eng.uber.com/h3/ . This library has been a game changer for my work. Before I had to create hexagonal grids using shapely and then use spatial joins to aggregate the data. With H3 you can go from a point to a hex really quickly.

Here’s the python wrapper for the library- https://github.com/uber/h3-py

Pablo18565• 6 years ago

Thank you! We'll consider it for the next revision.

Pablo18565• 6 years ago

@kndjckt we just added H3 to the post per your suggestion. Thank you!

chaoslawful• 6 years ago

Great article!

Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools for Python: A Quick Guide

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