Geoprocessing with Python First Edition

This is a great book to understand geoprocessing with Python. It uses GDAL, and mostly shows code in GeoTiff format, which is the best format for this type of work anyway. Pleasantly surprised at the no-nonsense, but explains everything style of the author. Highly recommend.

This book could simply stand on the merits of learning the basics of Python, using geospatial data as examples.The author has the ability to take complex principles and present those principles in an uncomplicated manner. The Python code examples are given line by line and does a great job in giving plain and straightforward explanations.Examples are used from many different types of vector and raster data, which gave me the opportunity to learn and understand geospatial formats with which I was not familiar.The book is broken down into logical chapters, each building upon the previous ones. Instruction is given on how to install and configure the Python programming environment. With other books, configuring the environment has not always been that straight forward.Geoprocessing with Python stands above other programming books I have read. What I really like about this particular book is that I can take the knowledge I gained throughout the book and create programs that are practical and useful in my craft as a GIS professional.

This is a fantastic resource if you want to understand how to use GDAL/OGR to read and process geospatial datasets using Python. Any Python developer should seriously consider using this book when starting looking in geospatial problems. The book contains a lot of organized information which is not easily findable in the web.Even if the author uses GDAL Python bindings, you will still find the book to be super useful when using more modern libraries like Fiona/Rasterio/Shapely.Congratulations to the author for putting together such a great amount of useful information in a single book.

With the number of applications that require some type of mapping or geoprocessing, this book is very relevant in today's app development. Personally, I really benefited in my day job from this book that had very good examples and clear explanations of the concepts allowing me to come up with clean design and make things easy. I would definitely recommend this book if you need to do any type of geoprocessing even if you are not using python. Concepts are well explained and can be applied to other languages.

I have purchased the book from manning website.This is one of the finest book not only for writing geoprocessing scripts in python but also you will get considerable amount of domain knowledge about GIS.I would recommend this book for every GIS developer.