From ebf5eb2bce0c8377da60e7e1e3a804bcbda0872f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kelsey Jordahl Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:14:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README to reflect ability to transform coordinate systems --- README.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 76cb701..103d526 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ GeoPandas is a project to add support for geographic data to objects can act on [shapely](http://toblerity.github.io/shapely) geometry objects and perform geometric operations. -GeoPandas geometry operations are cartesian. Objects are naive with -respect to coordinate systems, although the coordinate reference -system (crs) is stored as an attribute when loading from a file. In -the future, enforcement of like coordinates for operations and -projection into other reference systems may be implemented. +GeoPandas geometry operations are cartesian. The coordinate reference +system (crs) can stored as an attribute on an object, and is +automatically set when loading from a file. Objects may be +transformed to new coordinate systems with the `to_crs()` method. +There is currently no enforcement of like coordinates for operations, but that may change in the future. Examples --------