Working with geographical data

Many applications involve working with geographical data. For example, when tracking global weather, we might want to plot the temperature as measured by various sensors around the world at their position on a map. For this, we can use the GeoPandas package and the Geoplot package, both of which allow us to manipulate, analyze, and visualize geographical data.

In this recipe, we will use the GeoPandas and Geoplot packages to load and visualize some sample geographical data.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the GeoPandas package, the Geoplot package, and the Matplotlib pyplot package imported as plt:

import geopandas
import geoplot
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a simple plot of the capital cities plotted on a map of the world using sample data:

1. First, we need to load the sample data from the GeoPandas package, which contains the world geometry information:

   world = geopandas...