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Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Geospatial Data Science Quick Start Guide Effective techniques for performing smarter geospatial analysis using location intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809411
Length 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdishakur Hassan Abdishakur Hassan
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Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Jayakrishnan Vijayaraghavan
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Location data visualization

So far, we have been using GeoPandas plotting methods to visualize our location data. GeoPandas is built on top of cartopy, a lower-level Python library, and Geoplot. The plotting functionality in GeoPandas is a very important and convenient way to visualize geographic data; however, it lacks some advanced location data visualization. In this section, I will briefly introduce to you to Folium, which offers an easy-to-use and interactive high-level API for location data visualization.

Folium is a widely used library in the location data visualization ecosystem, as it provides both the mapping flexibility of Python and the visualization strength of the LeafletJS library from JavaScript. Folium provides interactive map visualization with different visualization techniques, as well as a number of beautiful base maps. It is also integrated well with the...

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