GeoPandas is a Python library for working with vector data. It is based on the pandas library that is part of the SciPy stack. SciPy is a popular library for data inspection and analysis, but unfortunately, it cannot read spatial data. GeoPandas was created to fill this gap, taking pandas data objects as a starting point. The library also adds functionality from geographical Python packages.
GeoPandas offers two data objects—a GeoSeries object that is based on a pandas Series object and a GeoDataFrame, based on a pandas DataFrame object, but adding a geometry column for each row. Both GeoSeries and GeoDataFrame objects can be used for spatial data processing, similar to spatial databases. Read and write functionality is provided ...
