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Exercise

Geographic vs projected coordinates

The CRS attribute stores the information about the Coordinate Reference System in which the data is represented. In this exercises, we will explore the CRS and the coordinates of the districts dataset about the districts of Paris.

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  • Look at the CRS attribute of the GeoDataFrame. Do you recognize the EPSG number?
  • Look at the values of the coordinates. What is the range, and what are the differences between different points? Can this be meters, or are it degrees?