[Tutor] theory: geography and python

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/02/2022 22:35, Nathan Smith wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is more of a theory based discussion topic (with luck). Off and on 
> I've been considering geography in python for a while, more 
> specifically, how you would go about positioning countries and borders.
> 
> Countries are, by their nature, rarely nice squares, so you could hardly 
> say:
> 
> England=(left lat, right lat)
> 
> ireland = (left lat, right lat).
> 
> Is there an industry standard for this sort of thing to get the shapes 
> of countries semi accurate in terms of coordinates and borders? What 
> sources should be looked at?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> Nathan
> 

I'd start here 
https://towardsdatascience.com/mapping-with-matplotlib-pandas-geopandas-and-basemap-in-python-d11b57ab5dac

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