July 2020

Colour bar for discrete rasters with Matplotlib

12th July 202012th July 2020
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Plotting raster data can be done in a few lines of code with Matplotlib. Adding a colour bar (color bar) associated to your data can be as simple as plt.colorbar() for example: This is a nice quick way of displaying a scale for your data. I’ve often wanted to plot discrete (and not continuous) colour… Read More »Colour bar for discrete rasters with Matplotlib

GeoPandas and PostGIS

8th July 20208th July 2020
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In late June GeoPandas 0.8 was released. This release has made massive steps in Input/Output (IO). A compelling thing about GeoPandas is its simple way to read a GIS vector dataset (Shapefile, GeoJson etc). It’s one line of code, or two if you include the import statement. import geopandas as gpd gpd.read_file(‘your_shapefile.shp’) Now, with the… Read More »GeoPandas and PostGIS