The shapefile (SHP) format is probably one of the most well-known and most common geospatial data format, but there are also GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, and many others. I’ll be showing you some of the ways I have learned to read these files in Python.
This is a pretty straightforward task that can be easy to forget if you don’t use them often enough. So let’s get started. This article… Read More »How to Get Today’s Date or Any Past Date in Python
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Extracting data in datetime format can be very tricky and frustrating. I have summed up a few things about datetime in Python that I have… Read More »Extracting Datetime Format in Python: Day, Date, Month, Year, etc.