GeoPandas

pandas is a high-performance Python data analysis library that can handle large datasets that are tabular (similar to a database), ordered/unordered, labeled matrices, or unlabeled statistical data. GeoPandas is simply a geospatial extension to pandas that builds upon Shapely, Fiona, PyProj, matplotlib, and Descartes, all of which must be installed. It allows you to easily perform operations in Python that would otherwise require a spatial database such as PostGIS.

As GeoPandas has so many complex dependencies, we’ll create a separate environment for it in Anaconda to keep things clean. First we need to deactivate our current environment:

conda deactivate lgawp4

Next we’ll create a new one for GeoPandas:

conda create -n geopandas python=3.10.9

Then we can activate it as follows:

conda activate geopandas

Then we need to install GeoPandas itself:

conda install geopandas

The following script opens a shapefile and dumps it into GeoJSON. Then...