Geopandas! 🗺

Teaching myself about the Geopandas library. Not because I’m interested in the plotting capacities but it sure would be nice to have a fast “geocoder” that could join point data to other shapefiles I have like counties, municipalities, Assembly districts, etc. without using QGIS.

For example, I can feed the state’s address management geocoder up to 1,000 addresses and it will spit back a list of coordinates. In theory quite easily I could take those coordinates, spatially join them with Geopandas and add a column with the Assembly district and municipality – all without loading the shapefile or plotting a map or doing scripting within QGIS.

https://automating-gis-processes.github.io/CSC18/lessons/L4/spatial-join.html