geopandas.GeoDataFrame.from_file

classmethod GeoDataFrame.from_file(filename, **kwargs)

Alternate constructor to create a GeoDataFrame from a file.

It is recommended to use geopandas.read_file() instead.

Can load a GeoDataFrame from a file in any format recognized by fiona. See http://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html for details.

Parameters

filenamestr

File path or file handle to read from. Depending on which kwargs are included, the content of filename may vary. See http://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html#usage for usage details.

kwargskey-word arguments

These arguments are passed to fiona.open, and can be used to access multi-layer data, data stored within archives (zip files), etc.

See also

read_file

read file to GeoDataFame

GeoDataFrame.to_file

write GeoDataFrame to file

Examples

>>> path = geopandas.datasets.get_path('nybb')
>>> gdf = geopandas.GeoDataFrame.from_file(path)
>>> gdf  
   BoroCode       BoroName     Shape_Leng    Shape_Area                                           geometry
0         5  Staten Island  330470.010332  1.623820e+09  MULTIPOLYGON (((970217.022 145643.332, 970227....
1         4         Queens  896344.047763  3.045213e+09  MULTIPOLYGON (((1029606.077 156073.814, 102957...
2         3       Brooklyn  741080.523166  1.937479e+09  MULTIPOLYGON (((1021176.479 151374.797, 102100...
3         1      Manhattan  359299.096471  6.364715e+08  MULTIPOLYGON (((981219.056 188655.316, 980940....
4         2          Bronx  464392.991824  1.186925e+09  MULTIPOLYGON (((1012821.806 229228.265, 101278...

The recommended method of reading files is geopandas.read_file():

>>> gdf = geopandas.read_file(path)

geopandas.GeoDataFrame geopandas.GeoDataFrame.from_features