How to Plot Polygons In Python This post shows you how to plot polygons in Python. When you’re working with polygons it can be useful to be able to plot them – perhaps to check that your operation has worked as expected, or to display a final result. The process to plot polygons in python… Read More »
Finding the centre of of a polygon can be useful for many geomtrical analysis and processing techniques. This quick guide shows you how to find the centre of a polygon in python. The Centroid The centre of a polygon is also known as its centroid. It the arithmetic mean position of all the points that… Read More »
I’ve been working with the Shapely python package in python. This is a short guide for how to merge polygons in python. This guide is based on “cascaded_union.py” in the shapely examples. Find out how to install shapely in python here. How to Merge Polygons in Python Download the script for this guide here. In… Read More »
How to Install Shapely on Anaconda (Windows) Shapely is a Python package for analysis and manipulation of geometric objects. Here’s how to install Shapely in the Anaconda python distribution, from Continuum Analytics. Anaconda uses its ‘conda‘ package manager to install, remove and otherwise manage python packages. This generally works well, but in the case of… Read More »