Joris Van den Bossche
I am a core contributor to Pandas and Apache Arrow, and one of the maintainers of GeoPandas and Shapely. I did a PhD at Ghent University and VITO in air quality research, worked at the Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science and at Voltron Data contributing to Apache Arrow. I am a freelance open source software developer and teacher.
Session
04-23
17:50
30min
The earth is no longer flat - introducing support for spherical geometries in Spherely and GeoPandas
Joris Van den Bossche
The geometries in GeoPandas, using the Shapely library, are assumed to be in projected coordinates on a flat plane. While this approximation is often just fine, for global data this runs into its limitations. This presentation introduces spherely, a Python library for working with vector geometries on the sphere, and its integration into GeoPandas.
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