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.. _geometric_manipulations:
Geometric Manipulations
========================
*geopandas* makes available all the tools for geometric manipulations in the `*shapely* library <http://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html>`_.
Note that documentation for all set-theoretic tools for creating new shapes using the relationship between two different spatial datasets -- like creating intersections, or differences -- can be found on the :doc:`set operations <set_operations>` page.
Constructive Methods
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. method:: GeoSeries.buffer(distance, resolution=16)
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` of geometries representing all points within a given `distance`
of each geometric object.
.. attribute:: GeoSeries.boundary
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` of lower dimensional objects representing
each geometries's set-theoretic `boundary`.
.. attribute:: GeoSeries.centroid
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` of points for each geometric centroid.
.. attribute:: GeoSeries.convex_hull
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` of geometries representing the smallest
convex `Polygon` containing all the points in each object unless the
number of points in the object is less than three. For two points,
the convex hull collapses to a `LineString`; for 1, a `Point`.
.. attribute:: GeoSeries.envelope
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` of geometries representing the point or
smallest rectangular polygon (with sides parallel to the coordinate
axes) that contains each object.
.. method:: GeoSeries.simplify(tolerance, preserve_topology=True)
Returns a ``GeoSeries`` containing a simplified representation of
each object.
.. attribute:: GeoSeries.unary_union
Return a geometry containing the union of all geometries in the ``GeoSeries``.
Affine transformations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. method:: GeoSeries.affine_transform(self, matrix)
Transform the geometries of the GeoSeries using an affine transformation matrix
.. method:: GeoSeries.rotate(self, angle, origin='center', use_radians=False)
Rotate the coordinates of the GeoSeries.
.. method:: GeoSeries.scale(self, xfact=1.0, yfact=1.0, zfact=1.0, origin='center')
Scale the geometries of the GeoSeries along each (x, y, z) dimensio.
.. method:: GeoSeries.skew(self, angle, origin='center', use_radians=False)
Shear/Skew the geometries of the GeoSeries by angles along x and y dimensions.
.. method:: GeoSeries.translate(self, xoff=0.0, yoff=0.0, zoff=0.0)
Shift the coordinates of the GeoSeries.
Examples of Geometric Manipulations
------------------------------------
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> import geopandas
>>> from geopandas import GeoSeries
>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon
>>> p1 = Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1)])
>>> p2 = Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)])
>>> p3 = Polygon([(2, 0), (3, 0), (3, 1), (2, 1)])
>>> g = GeoSeries([p1, p2, p3])
>>> g
0 POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 0))
1 POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))
2 POLYGON ((2 0, 3 0, 3 1, 2 1, 2 0))
dtype: geometry
.. image:: ../../_static/test.png
Some geographic operations return normal pandas object. The ``area`` property of a ``GeoSeries`` will return a ``pandas.Series`` containing the area of each item in the ``GeoSeries``:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> print(g.area)
0 0.5
1 1.0
2 1.0
dtype: float64
Other operations return GeoPandas objects:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> g.buffer(0.5)
0 POLYGON ((-0.3535533905932737 0.35355339059327...
1 POLYGON ((-0.5 0, -0.5 1, -0.4975923633360985 ...
2 POLYGON ((1.5 0, 1.5 1, 1.502407636663901 1.04...
dtype: geometry
.. image:: ../../_static/test_buffer.png
GeoPandas objects also know how to plot themselves. GeoPandas uses `descartes`_ to generate a `matplotlib`_ plot. To generate a plot of our GeoSeries, use:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> g.plot()
GeoPandas also implements alternate constructors that can read any data format recognized by `fiona`_. To read a zip file containing an ESRI shapefile with the `borough boundaries of New York City`_ (GeoPandas includes this as an example dataset):
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> nybb_path = geopandas.datasets.get_path('nybb')
>>> boros = geopandas.read_file(nybb_path)
>>> boros.set_index('BoroCode', inplace=True)
>>> boros.sort_index(inplace=True)
>>> boros
BoroName Shape_Leng Shape_Area \
BoroCode
1 Manhattan 359299.096471 6.364715e+08
2 Bronx 464392.991824 1.186925e+09
3 Brooklyn 741080.523166 1.937479e+09
4 Queens 896344.047763 3.045213e+09
5 Staten Island 330470.010332 1.623820e+09
geometry
BoroCode
1 MULTIPOLYGON (((981219.0557861328 188655.31579...
2 MULTIPOLYGON (((1012821.805786133 229228.26458...
3 MULTIPOLYGON (((1021176.479003906 151374.79699...
4 MULTIPOLYGON (((1029606.076599121 156073.81420...
5 MULTIPOLYGON (((970217.0223999023 145643.33221...
.. image:: ../../_static/nyc.png
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> boros['geometry'].convex_hull
BoroCode
1 POLYGON ((977855.4451904297 188082.3223876953,...
2 POLYGON ((1017949.977600098 225426.8845825195,...
3 POLYGON ((988872.8212280273 146772.0317993164,...
4 POLYGON ((1000721.531799316 136681.776184082, ...
5 POLYGON ((915517.6877458114 120121.8812543372,...
dtype: geometry
.. image:: ../../_static/nyc_hull.png
To demonstrate a more complex operation, we'll generate a
``GeoSeries`` containing 2000 random points:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from shapely.geometry import Point
>>> xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax = 900000, 1080000, 120000, 280000
>>> xc = (xmax - xmin) * np.random.random(2000) + xmin
>>> yc = (ymax - ymin) * np.random.random(2000) + ymin
>>> pts = GeoSeries([Point(x, y) for x, y in zip(xc, yc)])
Now draw a circle with fixed radius around each point:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> circles = pts.buffer(2000)
We can collapse these circles into a single shapely MultiPolygon
geometry with
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> mp = circles.unary_union
To extract the part of this geometry contained in each borough, we can
just use:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> holes = boros['geometry'].intersection(mp)
.. image:: ../../_static/holes.png
and to get the area outside of the holes:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> boros_with_holes = boros['geometry'].difference(mp)
.. image:: ../../_static/boros_with_holes.png
Note that this can be simplified a bit, since ``geometry`` is
available as an attribute on a ``GeoDataFrame``, and the
``intersection`` and ``difference`` methods are implemented with the
"&" and "-" operators, respectively. For example, the latter could
have been expressed simply as ``boros.geometry - mp``.
It's easy to do things like calculate the fractional area in each
borough that are in the holes:
.. sourcecode:: python
>>> holes.area / boros.geometry.area
BoroCode
1 0.579939
2 0.586833
3 0.608174
4 0.582172
5 0.558075
dtype: float64
.. _Descartes: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/descartes
.. _matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org
.. _fiona: http://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
.. _geopy: https://github.com/geopy/geopy
.. _geo_interface: https://gist.github.com/sgillies/2217756
.. _borough boundaries of New York City: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Borough-Boundaries/tqmj-j8zm
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2