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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

By : Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
Book Image

Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

By: Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees

Overview of this book

Python comes with a host of open source libraries and tools that help you work on professional geoprocessing tasks without investing in expensive tools. This book will introduce Python developers, both new and experienced, to a variety of new code libraries that have been developed to perform geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, and data management. This book will use examples and code snippets that will help explain how Python 3 differs from Python 2, and how these new code libraries can be used to solve age-old problems in geospatial analysis. You will begin by understanding what geoprocessing is and explore the tools and libraries that Python 3 offers. You will then learn to use Python code libraries to read and write geospatial data. You will then learn to perform geospatial queries within databases and learn PyQGIS to automate analysis within the QGIS mapping suite. Moving forward, you will explore the newly released ArcGIS API for Python and ArcGIS Online to perform geospatial analysis and create ArcGIS Online web maps. Further, you will deep dive into Python Geospatial web frameworks and learn to create a geospatial REST API.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
7
Geoprocessing with Geodatabases
Index

Chapter 15. Automating Cloud Cartography

Mapbox has become synonymous with mobile mapping and data visualizations. In addition to their basemap styling toolset, which has been adopted by app developers and cartographers, they are also producing interesting mapping tools written in Python and JavaScript. 

Combining those two useful languages into one package, Mapbox recently released the new MapboxGL—Jupyter Python module. This new module allows for instant data visualization creation within a Jupyter Notebook environment. Along with the Mapbox Python SDK, a module that allows API access to account services, Python make it easy to add Mapbox tools and services to enterprise geospatial applications. 

In this chapter, we'll learn:

  • How to create a Mapbox account to  generate access tokens
  • How to style a custom basemap
  • Read/write access to cloud data and basemaps
  • How to create a choropleth map 
  • How to create a graduated circle visualization