Maps of Sweden in GeoParquet for easy usage.
The parquets have been created from files published by Statistics Sweden and The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. Maps include counties, municipalities and FA regions. The original geometries have been transformed from SWEREF 99 TM to WGS 84 for better out of the box compatibility with different tools. The column names have also been somewhat sanitized (e.g. KnKod -> kommun_kod).
The package gets you the file path so that you can load it with your prefered tool, for example PyArrow or GeoPandas. An extra convenience function is included to quickly convert an Arrow tabular object (such as a PyArrow table) to GeoJSON.
Made for Python with inspiration from swemaps2.
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>>> import plotly.express as px
>>> import pyarrow.parquet as pq
>>> import swemaps
# Load the map for the specified type
>>> kommuner = pq.read_table(swemaps.get_path("kommun"))
>>> kommuner.column_names
['kommun_kod', 'kommun', 'geometry']
# The convenience function returns GeoJSON from a PyArrow table object
>>> geojson = swemaps.table_to_geojson(kommuner)
# Here's a dataframe with municipalities and some random values that we can plot
>>> df.head()
shape: (5, 2)
┌──────────┬───────┐
│ Kommun ┆ Value │
│ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ i64 │
╞══════════╪═══════╡
│ Ale ┆ 544 │
│ Alingsås ┆ 749 │
│ Alvesta ┆ 771 │
│ Aneby ┆ 241 │
│ Arboga ┆ 763 │
└──────────┴───────┘
# Use Plotly to create a choropleth using the dataframe and GeoJSON
>>> fig = px.choropleth(
df,
geojson=geojson,
color="Value",
locations="Kommun",
featureidkey="properties.kommun",
projection="mercator",
color_continuous_scale="Viridis",
fitbounds="locations",
basemap_visible=False,
)You might want to subset the map of municipalities for a specific county or a group of counties. Since the geometry is loaded as a PyArrow table the filter operation is straightforward.
>>> import pyarrow.compute as pc
>>> kommuner.schema
kommun_kod: string
kommun: string
geometry: binary
-- field metadata --
ARROW:extension:metadata: '{"crs":{"$schema":"https://proj.org/schemas/' + 1296
ARROW:extension:name: 'geoarrow.wkb'
-- schema metadata --
geo: '{"version":"1.1.0","primary_column":"geometry","columns":{"geometry' + 1621
# County code for Skåne is 12
>>> kommuner = kommuner.filter(pc.starts_with(pc.field("kommun_kod"), "12"))
>>> geojson = swemaps.table_to_geojson(kommuner)You could also use list comprehension on the GeoJSON to filter it.
>>> geojson["features"] = [
feature
for feature in geojson["features"]
if feature["properties"]["kommun_kod"].startswith("12")
]Anyway, now we can plot Skåne.
>>> skane = px.choropleth(
df,
geojson=geojson,
color="Value",
locations="Kommun",
featureidkey="properties.kommun",
projection="mercator",
color_continuous_scale="Viridis",
fitbounds="locations",
basemap_visible=False,
title="Skåne municipalities"
)
skane.show()
Another possibility is to load the GeoParquet into a GeoDataFrame.
>>> import geopandas as gpd
>>> gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame.read_parquet(swemaps.get_path("lan"))
>>> gdf.head()
lan_kod lan geometry
0 01 Stockholms MULTIPOLYGON (((17.24034 59.24219, 17.28475 59...
1 03 Uppsala MULTIPOLYGON (((17.36606 59.61224, 17.35475 59...
2 04 Södermanlands MULTIPOLYGON (((15.95815 58.96497, 15.8613 58....
3 05 Östergötlands MULTIPOLYGON (((14.93369 58.13112, 14.89472 58...
4 06 Jönköpings MULTIPOLYGON (((14.98311 57.9345, 15.00458 57....
# And with matplotlib installed as well we can have quick look
>>> gdf.plot()