How to create your own Customized Maps merging Polygons in Geopandas

And the basics of this library

Have you ever wanted to create your own customized map for your dashboard tool — be it PowerBi, Looker Studio, or Tableau?

If so… today’s your lucky day!

Geopandas is a powerful library that simplifies working with geospatial data, and one of its most useful applications for data visualization is precisely…

Merging polygons to design customized regions and maps.

In this tutorial, I will explain how to merge different European countries’ polygons using Geopandas to create 4 European regions.

Let’s discover it all together! 👇🏻

In my job as a Data Analyst, I intensively work with geospatial data. And as you can guess, dashboards play a key role when displaying this data.

A common task to do is to generate customized maps that adapt to the geospatial regions of interest. In my case, I had to split Western Europe into 4 big areas:

But let me rewind a bit… let’s start from the beginning!

Geopandas is a Python library and its main function is to make working with geospatial data in Python easier.

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