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Glossary
Celine Lucia Losch edited this page Oct 1, 2020
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- The Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is important because the geometric shapes in a GeoSeries or GeoDataFrame object are simply a collection of coordinates in an arbitrary space. A CRS tells Python how those coordinates relate to places on the Earth.empy
- A GeoDataFrame object is a pandas.DataFrame that has a column with geometry.For more information see: https://geopandas.org/reference/geopandas.GeoDataFrame.html
- Vector data provides a way to represent real world features within a GIS environment. A feature can be anything can see on a landscape. Imagine you are standing on the top of a hill. Looking down, you can see different characterisctics of a landscape(houses, roads, trees, rivers, and so on). Each one of these characteristics can be a feature that can be represented by a GIS application. Vector features have attributes, which consist of text or numerical information that describe the features.