Which geopandas datasets (maps) are available?

As written in the geopandas.datasets.get_path(...) documentation, one has to execute

>>> geopandas.datasets.available
['naturalearth_lowres', 'naturalearth_cities', 'nybb']

Where

• naturalearth_lowres: contours of countries
• naturalearth_cities: positions of cities
• nybb: maybe New York?

Other data sources

Searching for “germany shapefile” gave an arcgis.com url which used the “Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie” as a source. The result of using vg2500_geo84/vg2500_krs.shp looks like this:

Source:

© Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main, 2011
Vervielfältigung, Verbreitung und öffentliche Zugänglichmachung, auch auszugsweise, mit Quellenangabe gestattet.

I also had to set base.set_aspect(1.4), otherwise it looked wrong. The value 1.4 was found by trial and error.

Another source for such data for Berlin is daten.berlin.de

When geopandas reads the shapefile, it is a geopandas dataframe with the columns

['USE', 'RS', 'RS_ALT', 'GEN', 'SHAPE_LENG', 'SHAPE_AREA', 'geometry']

with:

• USE=4 for all elements
• RS is a string like 16077 or 01003
• RS_ALT is a string like 160770000000 or 010030000000
• GEN is a string like 'Saale-Holzland-Kreis' or 'Erlangen'
• SHAPE_LENG is a float like 202986.1998816 or 248309.91235015
• SHAPE_AREA is a float like 1.91013141e+08 or 1.47727769e+09
• geometry is a shapely geometry – mostly POLYGON