/Basics-of-Mapping-Talk

Repo for a talk on the basics of making maps

Slides and code from Max Shron's talk on the nuts and bolts of mapping.

  • shpUtils.py and dbfUtils.py are both by Zachary Forest Johnson, and mention so in the code.
  • mapbasics.py is by Max Shron, and is little more than a few hacked together subroutines. Use at your own risk.

To use this code, use shpUtils.loadShapefile to load a shapefile, mapbasics.make_dict to create a NAME -> list of arrays format from the shapefile, and then mapbasics.mercatorify or mapbasics.lambertify to project the contents.

Happy hacking!