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Exercise

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.

Eiffel Tower

(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.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the Point class 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.