Exercise

Finding the name of the closest National Park

Let's start with a custom query for a single mining site. Here, we will determine the name of the national park that is the closest to the specific mining site.

The datasets on the mining sites (mining_sites) and national parks (national_parks) are already loaded.

Instructions

100 XP

Select the first element of geometry and assign it to a variable called single_mine.
Calculate the distance from each of the national parks to the single_mine. Call the result dist.
Obtain the index for the minimum of dist with the idxmin() method.
Get the name of the closest national park using the obtained index with the .loc[] attribute, and print the result.

Take Hint (-30 XP)