Spatial operations: creating new geometries

Working with Geospatial Data in Python

Joris Van den Bossche

Open source software developer and teacher, GeoPandas maintainer

Spatial operations

Spatial operations: intersection

Spatial operations: union

Spatial operations: difference

Spatial operations with GeoPandas

africa.head()

           name             geometry
0        Angola  (POLYGON ((23.90...
1       Burundi  POLYGON ((29.339...
2         Benin  POLYGON ((2.6917...
3  Burkina Faso  POLYGON ((2.1544...
4      Botswana  POLYGON ((29.432...

Spatial operations with GeoPandas

print(box)

POLYGON ((60 10, 60 -10, -20 -10, -20 10))

Spatial operations with GeoPandas

africa.intersection(box)

Spatial operations with GeoPandas

africa.head()

           name                                           geometry
0        Angola  (POLYGON ((23.90415368011818 -11.7222815894063...
1       Burundi  POLYGON ((29.33999759290035 -4.499983412294092...
2      Botswana  POLYGON ((29.43218834810904 -22.09131275806759...
...

africa.intersection(box)

0    (POLYGON ((13.22332255001795 -10, 13.120987583...
1    POLYGON ((29.33999759290035 -4.499983412294092...
2                                                   ()
...
dtype: object

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Working with Geospatial Data in Python