🕘 Quick start
You have a geoJson file and want to draw a map with it:
🤔 What is a geoJson file?
This is a geoJson file. Let's consider french state boundaries. The original file comes fromo here but I stored it on the github repo of the python graph gallery for convenience.
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<h2 id="Load with GeoPandas">How to load a <code>geoJson</code> file into python</h2>How to load a geoJson file into python
You're best friend here is geopandas. If this package hasn't been installed on your machine yet, you can do so with pip install geopandas. Then, load the package:
import geopandas as gpdgpd.datasets.available['naturalearth_cities', 'naturalearth_lowres', 'nybb']Now, let's load the .geojson file located here.
data = gpd.read_file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/The-Python-Graph-Gallery/master/static/data/france.geojson")data.crs<Geographic 2D CRS: EPSG:4326>
Name: WGS 84
Axis Info [ellipsoidal]:
- Lat[north]: Geodetic latitude (degree)
- Lon[east]: Geodetic longitude (degree)
Area of Use:
- name: World
- bounds: (-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0)
Datum: World Geodetic System 1984
- Ellipsoid: WGS 84
- Prime Meridian: GreenwichHere we are 🎉! data is a geo dataframe. Each row represents an item in the geojson file, i.e. a region of france here. Columns describe the feature of each region. The geometry column is probably the most important. It provides the coordinate of the region boundary.
print(type(data))<class 'geopandas.geodataframe.GeoDataFrame'>
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#import requests
#import pandas as pd
#url = 'https://github.com/holtzy/The-Python-Graph-Gallery/blob/master/static/data/france.geojson'
#response = requests.get(url)
#response
#data = response.json()
#data
##df = pd.io.json.json_normalize(data['features'])
#dfMany different options exist to plot a map from a geopandas dataframe. The most common solution is to use a package called geoplot. You can install it with conda with conda install geoplot -c conda-forge. (See here). Then import it with:
import geoplot
import geoplot.crs as gcrsOnce the library is loaded, the polyplot() function can be used to draw a map of the geospatial data frame. The polyplot() function is used to plot polygons, i.e any type of geographic area.
geoplot.polyplot(data, projection=gcrs.AlbersEqualArea(), edgecolor='darkgrey', facecolor='lightgrey', linewidth=.3,
figsize=(12, 8))<GeoAxesSubplot:>
Here we are, we've loaded a geoJson file, transformed it into a geopandas dataframe and drawn a map with geoplot from it!
