#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 # # Spatial relationships and operations # In[1]: get_ipython().run_line_magic('matplotlib', 'inline') import pandas as pd import geopandas pd.options.display.max_rows = 10 # In[2]: countries = geopandas.read_file("zip://./data/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip") cities = geopandas.read_file("zip://./data/ne_110m_populated_places.zip") rivers = geopandas.read_file("zip://./data/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.zip") # ## Spatial relationships # # An important aspect of geospatial data is that we can look at *spatial relationships*: how two spatial objects relate to each other (whether they overlap, intersect, contain, .. one another). # # The topological, set-theoretic relationships in GIS are typically based on the DE-9IM model. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_relation for more information. # # ![](img/TopologicSpatialRelarions2.png) # (Image by [Krauss, CC BY-SA 3.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_relation#/media/File:TopologicSpatialRelarions2.png)) # ### Relationships between individual objects # Let's first create some small toy spatial objects: # # A polygon (note: we use `.squeeze()` here to to extract the scalar geometry object from the GeoSeries of length 1): # In[3]: belgium = countries.loc[countries['name'] == 'Belgium', 'geometry'].squeeze() # Two points: # In[4]: paris = cities.loc[cities['name'] == 'Paris', 'geometry'].squeeze() brussels = cities.loc[cities['name'] == 'Brussels', 'geometry'].squeeze() # And a linestring: # In[5]: from shapely.geometry import LineString line = LineString([paris, brussels]) # Let's visualize those 4 geometry objects together (I only put them in a GeoSeries to easily display them together with the geopandas `.plot()` method): # In[6]: geopandas.GeoSeries([belgium, paris, brussels, line]).plot(cmap='tab10') # You can recognize the abstract shape of Belgium. # # Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is thus located within Belgium. This is a spatial relationship, and we can test this using the individual shapely geometry objects as follow: # In[7]: brussels.within(belgium) # And using the reverse, Belgium contains Brussels: # In[8]: belgium.contains(brussels) # On the other hand, Paris is not located in Belgium: # In[9]: belgium.contains(paris) # In[10]: paris.within(belgium) # The straight line we draw from Paris to Brussels is not fully located within Belgium, but it does intersect with it: # In[11]: belgium.contains(line) # In[12]: line.intersects(belgium) # ### Spatial relationships with GeoDataFrames # # The same methods that are available on individual `shapely` geometries as we have seen above, are also available as methods on `GeoSeries` / `GeoDataFrame` objects. # # For example, if we call the `contains` method on the world dataset with the `paris` point, it will do this spatial check for each country in the `world` dataframe: # In[13]: countries.contains(paris) # Because the above gives us a boolean result, we can use that to filter the dataframe: # In[14]: countries[countries.contains(paris)] # And indeed, France is the only country in the world in which Paris is located. # Another example, extracting the linestring of the Amazon river in South America, we can query through which countries the river flows: # In[15]: amazon = rivers[rivers['name'] == 'Amazonas'].geometry.squeeze() # In[16]: countries[countries.crosses(amazon)] # or .intersects #
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# # Overview of the different functions to check spatial relationships (*spatial predicate functions*): # # * `equals` # * `contains` # * `crosses` # * `disjoint` # * `intersects` # * `overlaps` # * `touches` # * `within` # * `covers` # # # See https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual.html#predicates-and-relationships for an overview of those methods. # # See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-9IM for all details on the semantics of those operations. # #
# ## Let's practice! # # We will again use the Paris datasets to do some exercises. Let's start importing them again: # In[17]: districts = geopandas.read_file("data/paris_districts_utm.geojson") stations = geopandas.read_file("data/paris_sharing_bike_stations_utm.geojson") #
# EXERCISE: # # # * Create a shapely `Point` object for the Notre Dame cathedral (which has x/y coordinates of (452321.4581477511, 5411311.330882619)) # * Calculate the distance of each bike station to the Notre Dame. # * Check in which district the Notre Dame is located. # #
# In[18]: from shapely.geometry import Point # In[19]: notre_dame = Point(452321.4581477511, 5411311.330882619) # In[20]: stations.distance(notre_dame) # In[21]: districts.contains(notre_dame) # In[22]: districts[districts.contains(notre_dame)] # ## Spatial operations # # Next to the spatial predicates that return boolean values, Shapely and GeoPandas also provide operations that return new geometric objects. # # **Binary operations:** # # # # # # # # #
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# # # See https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual.html#spatial-analysis-methods for more details. # For example, using the toy data from above, let's construct a buffer around Brussels (which returns a Polygon): # In[23]: geopandas.GeoSeries([belgium, brussels.buffer(1)]).plot(alpha=0.5, cmap='tab10') # and now take the intersection, union or difference of those two polygons: # In[24]: brussels.buffer(1).intersection(belgium) # In[25]: brussels.buffer(1).union(belgium) # In[26]: brussels.buffer(1).difference(belgium) # Another useful method is the `unary_union` attribute, which converts the set of geometry objects in a GeoDataFrame into a single geometry object by taking the union of all those geometries. # # For example, we can construct a single object for the Africa continent: # In[27]: africa_countries = countries[countries['continent'] == 'Africa'] # In[28]: africa = africa_countries.unary_union # In[29]: africa # In[30]: print(str(africa)[:1000]) #
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# # GeoPandas (and Shapely for the individual objects) provides a whole lot of basic methods to analyse the geospatial data (distance, length, centroid, boundary, convex_hull, simplify, transform, ....), much more than the few that we can touch in this tutorial. # # # * An overview of all methods provided by GeoPandas can be found here: http://geopandas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html # # #
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# EXERCISE: What are the districts close to the Seine? # #

# Below, the coordinates for the Seine river in the neighbourhood of Paris are provided as a GeoJSON-like feature dictionary (created at http://geojson.io). #

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# Based on this `seine` object, we want to know which districts are located close (maximum 150 m) to the Seine. #

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# In[31]: # created a line with http://geojson.io s_seine = geopandas.GeoDataFrame.from_features({"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"type":"Feature","properties":{},"geometry":{"type":"LineString","coordinates":[[2.408924102783203,48.805619828930226],[2.4092674255371094,48.81703747481909],[2.3927879333496094,48.82325391133874],[2.360687255859375,48.84912860497674],[2.338714599609375,48.85827758964043],[2.318115234375,48.8641501307046],[2.298717498779297,48.863246707697],[2.2913360595703125,48.859519915404825],[2.2594070434570312,48.8311646245967],[2.2436141967773438,48.82325391133874],[2.236919403076172,48.82347994904826],[2.227306365966797,48.828339513221444],[2.2224998474121094,48.83862215329593],[2.2254180908203125,48.84856379804802],[2.2240447998046875,48.85409863123821],[2.230224609375,48.867989496547864],[2.260265350341797,48.89192242750887],[2.300262451171875,48.910203080780285]]}}]}, crs={'init': 'epsg:4326'}) # In[32]: # convert to local UTM zone s_seine_utm = s_seine.to_crs(epsg=32631) # In[33]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20, 10)) districts.plot(ax=ax, color='grey', alpha=0.4, edgecolor='k') s_seine_utm.plot(ax=ax) # In[34]: # access the single geometry object seine = s_seine_utm.geometry.squeeze() # In[35]: seine_buffer = seine.buffer(150) # In[36]: seine_buffer # In[37]: districts_seine = districts[districts.intersects(seine_buffer)] # In[38]: fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(20, 10)) districts.plot(ax=ax, color='grey', alpha=0.4, edgecolor='k') districts_seine.plot(ax=ax, color='blue', alpha=0.4, edgecolor='k') s_seine_utm.plot(ax=ax) # In[ ]: