Python pandas get length (row count) of a dataframe

There are several ways of knowing the length of your dataframe rows. Here are three ways using index, shape and count methods.

Manually inspecting this dataframe below, we see that it has 10 rows (note the index count starts from 0). Now, let check for this information dynamically.

1) index
Using the index method, it returns the 'RangeIndex' start, stop and step for the dataframe. So, wrapping it in a len() function will give the stop value that is the length of the datafarme as seen below.

2) shape
Using the shape method will return a tuple like so (row, col), where the first element is row and the second element is column.

3) count
Using the count method returns a 'pandas.core.series.Series' that contains number of items for each column.

Enjoy!

SVG2GeoJSON - SVG file with added Geo-Referencing

Recently, I had a task to convert an SVG image map into GeoJSON format for use in the GIS. This is a complicated thing to do because SVG vector images don't have spatial reference.

Fortunately, I stumbled on this NodeJS app package named svg2geojson written by Prognoz. This library converts an SVG image to a (slightly-incorrect) GeoJSON

To make use of this library, you need to update your SVG map by placing two 'GeoItems' inside a Prognoz MetaInfo element as a direct child of the '<svg>' element at the root of your document.

Now how do you find the X/Y and Longitude/Latitude attributes within the 'GeoItems' for your specific SVG image? This question is what I will attempt to answer in this blog post.

The svg2geojson documentation says: "These map opposing X/Y corners in your SVG coordinate space to Longitude/Latitude coordinates on the world. Note that the SVG coordinate space has Y increasing down (toward the south), while Latitude increases upwards (towards the north)."

That is something like the daigram below:-