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Open Source Spatial Analysis Tools for Python: A Quick Guide

50 points by Pablo1856 6y ago

Pablo1856 6y ago
We put together a list of free spatial analysis tools for Python. Please let us know your comments and/or ideas.
phlarebot 6y ago
Cool, Might have to write a python submodule to use some of this sometime, since we do have a lot of geo data.
bark0111 6y ago
Great article!
guynirpaz 6y ago
Great article, very well written and clear. Also with COVID - very relevant for many of us.
- joemellin 6y ago
  Agreed on the Covid part.
- Pablo1856 6y ago
  Thank you! Yes, we are putting these to work on the COVID issue with the Safegraph data consortium
jssmith 6y ago
Would any of these be useful for working with Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data? There are some web interfaces but analyzing and visualizing with Python would be more flexible. (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-cases https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov...).
- Pablo1856 6y ago
  Absolutely! The team at makepath is currently working with Safegraph data to tackle Covid along with SUNY-ESF. I will pass this along to the team. https://makepath.com/covid-19-public-private-partnership-syracuse-university-college-of-environmental-science-and-makepath-working-with-safegraph-to-understand-virus-mortality/ https://makepath.com/covid-19-public-private-partnership-syr...
sfalc 6y ago
Awesome list. I've been playing with Fiona for a few years, but I'll need to take a look at some of these other modules like Shapely.
raminnn 6y ago
Great Insight!
slbenso1 6y ago
This is a great summary, I'll take a harder look at these
johnsmith12309 6y ago
Thanks for putting this together, Pablo. Super insightful!
chalaschek 6y ago
Great list!
kndjckt 6y ago
No mention of H3! The hexagonal spatial index https://eng.uber.com/h3/ https://eng.uber.com/h3/ . This library has been a game changer for my work. Before I had to create hexagonal grids using shapely and then use spatial joins to aggregate the data. With H3 you can go from a point to a hex really quickly. Here’s the python wrapper for the library- https://github.com/uber/h3-py https://github.com/uber/h3-py
- Pablo1856 6y ago
  Thank you! We'll consider it for the next revision.
- Pablo1856 6y ago
  @kndjckt we just added H3 to the post per your suggestion. Thank you!
chaoslawful 6y ago
Great article!

50 points by Pablo1856 6y ago

Pablo1856 6y ago

We put together a list of free spatial analysis tools for Python. Please let us know your comments and/or ideas.

phlarebot 6y ago

Cool, Might have to write a python submodule to use some of this sometime, since we do have a lot of geo data.

bark0111 6y ago

Great article!

guynirpaz 6y ago

Great article, very well written and clear. Also with COVID - very relevant for many of us.

joemellin 6y ago
Agreed on the Covid part.
Pablo1856 6y ago
Thank you! Yes, we are putting these to work on the COVID issue with the Safegraph data consortium

jssmith 6y ago

Would any of these be useful for working with Johns Hopkins Covid-19 data? There are some web interfaces but analyzing and visualizing with Python would be more flexible. (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-cases https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov...).

Pablo1856 6y ago
Absolutely! The team at makepath is currently working with Safegraph data to tackle Covid along with SUNY-ESF. I will pass this along to the team. https://makepath.com/covid-19-public-private-partnership-syracuse-university-college-of-environmental-science-and-makepath-working-with-safegraph-to-understand-virus-mortality/ https://makepath.com/covid-19-public-private-partnership-syr...

sfalc 6y ago

Awesome list. I've been playing with Fiona for a few years, but I'll need to take a look at some of these other modules like Shapely.

raminnn 6y ago

Great Insight!

slbenso1 6y ago

This is a great summary, I'll take a harder look at these

johnsmith12309 6y ago

Thanks for putting this together, Pablo. Super insightful!

chalaschek 6y ago

Great list!

kndjckt 6y ago

No mention of H3! The hexagonal spatial index https://eng.uber.com/h3/ https://eng.uber.com/h3/ . This library has been a game changer for my work. Before I had to create hexagonal grids using shapely and then use spatial joins to aggregate the data. With H3 you can go from a point to a hex really quickly. Here’s the python wrapper for the library- https://github.com/uber/h3-py https://github.com/uber/h3-py

Pablo1856 6y ago
Thank you! We'll consider it for the next revision.
Pablo1856 6y ago
@kndjckt we just added H3 to the post per your suggestion. Thank you!

chaoslawful 6y ago

Great article!