Creating a Point geometry
The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower built in the 19th century, and is probably the most iconic view of Paris.
(By couscouschocolat [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons)
The location of the Eiffel Tower is: x of 255422.6 and y of 6250868.9.
This exercise is part of the course
Working with Geospatial Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Import the
Pointclass from shapely. - Create a shapely point object with the coordinates of the Eiffel Tower and assign it to a variable called
eiffel_tower. - Print the result.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import the Point geometry
from ____.____ import ____
# Construct a point object for the Eiffel Tower
eiffel_tower = ____
# Print the result
____