Survey of python for GIS applications

Introduction to the python language and ecosystem for GIS professionals

Created by: Michael Miller
GIS Programming

What Will I Learn?

• This course is broad rather than deep. My goal is that when finished, students have some knowledge of the tools in the python ecosystem for geospatial applications and more importantly, how they all work together. More detailed courses will be forthcoming. Some of the topics covered will be
• An introduction to the language and its core principles.
• An introduction to object oriented programming in python.
• FInding and using third party python modules.
• Working with the operating system
• Working with files
• Working with databases
• Reading spatial data with GDAL/OGR
• Visualizing data with matplotlib and other tools
• Data Analysis with pandas and geopandas
• Jupyter notebooks

Requirements

• This course is not a beginner programming course. I assume you have some programming knowledge, i.e. what . variable is, what an expression is, what a loop is, what a function is, etc. But i do go over the basics of how all those things are implemented in python.

Target audience

• This course is oriented towards geospatial professionals who want a better understanding of the complete python ecosystem for geospatial applications.
• For this course I will not go into detail about any specific python tool, rather this is intended to be an introduction to the language and an overview of its capabilities.