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 **Good Practices**
 *  Common pittfalls --- for instance wrong EPSG --- should be handled via [warnings](https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html) or exceptions so that errors are not introduced silently
-*  Whenever we are dealing with coordinates, we try to use [geopandas.GeoSeries](https://geopandas.org/reference/geopandas.GeoSeries.html) so that the projection is handled explicitly
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+*  Whenever we are dealing with coordinates, we try to use [geopandas.GeoSeries](https://geopandas.org/reference/geopandas.GeoSeries.html) so that the projection is handled explicitly
+*  Use progress bars such as [tqdm](https://tqdm.github.io/) for jobs which take a considerable amount of time
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