Vectorial Data
Learn about vectorial data types and get familiar with common data types and file formats.
We'll cover the following...
Vectorial data types
In this lesson, we'll take a deeper look into vectorial data types and the main file formats used in the GIS domain.
The three basic classes of vectorial geometric objects supported by GeoPandas are:
Point and MultiPoints
Line and MultiLines
Polygon and MultiPolygons
But why does every data type previously mentioned appear in the bullet points with its collection counterpart (e.g., Point and MultiPoints)? To understand this, imagine that we're trying to represent a single American state as vectorial data. Take Colorado, for example—it has a simple, almost squared, shape. It can be easily defined by a collection of coordinates where the last one repeats the first to represent a closed ...