Kerala Day 3
Periyar Tiger Reserve
We started from Munnar. We came down a moutain range and climed up another. I
did not note down the geo locations while coming down and hence those are
missing. While we did not see tigers and elephants we did see the following.
Great cormorant, Woolly-necked stork, Sambar deer, Bengal monitor,
White-throated kingfisher, Brahminy Kite and Gaur.
Please see the photos my
facebook.
The path taken
The above
interactive
visualization
was made using
Python and
Folium. I wanted to make a visualization
with Folium for last 2 years!
The folium library in turn uses the
leaflet library to render
the web-page visualisation. Using Folium I do not have to worry about the HTML,
CSS, Javascript code! Plus Python allows me to hold my data in
pandas and
manupulation of the data becomes convenient. Customizing markers and icons
becomes easy using both the pandas and folium libraries.
Folium was
not part of the standard Anaconda distribution. It had to be downloaded by using
the following command.
$ conda install folium -c conda-forge
at the
Anaconda promo. But before that I created a separate environment for folium
(folium_project) by closing the base environment. The command was
$ conda
create --name folium_project --clone base
Folium allows one to
leverage the power of leaflet by just writing a few lines of code. The web-page
visualization including its code is on my
github account.