geopandas.GeoDataFrame.clip¶

GeoDataFrame.clip(mask, keep_geom_type=False)¶

Clip points, lines, or polygon geometries to the mask extent.

Both layers must be in the same Coordinate Reference System (CRS). The GeoDataFrame will be clipped to the full extent of the mask object.

If there are multiple polygons in mask, data from the GeoDataFrame will be clipped to the total boundary of all polygons in mask.

Parameters

maskGeoDataFrame, GeoSeries, (Multi)Polygon: Polygon vector layer used to clip gdf. The mask’s geometry is dissolved into one geometric feature and intersected with gdf.
keep_geom_typeboolean, default False: If True, return only geometries of original type in case of intersection resulting in multiple geometry types or GeometryCollections. If False, return all resulting geometries (potentially mixed types).

Returns

GeoDataFrame: Vector data (points, lines, polygons) from gdf clipped to polygon boundary from mask.

See also

clip: equivalent top-level function

Examples

Clip points (global cities) with a polygon (the South American continent):

>>> world = geopandas.read_file(
...     geopandas.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_lowres'))
>>> south_america = world[world['continent'] == "South America"]
>>> capitals = geopandas.read_file(
...     geopandas.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_cities'))
>>> capitals.shape
(202, 2)

>>> sa_capitals = capitals.clip(south_america)
>>> sa_capitals.shape
(12, 2)

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