geopandas.GeoSeries.from_file¶

classmethod GeoSeries.from_file(filename, **kwargs)¶

Alternate constructor to create a GeoSeries from a file.

Can load a GeoSeries from a file from any format recognized by fiona. See http://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html for details. From a file with attributes loads only geometry column. Note that to do that, GeoPandas first loads the whole GeoDataFrame.

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

Examples

>>> path = geopandas.datasets.get_path('nybb')
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries.from_file(path)
>>> s
0    MULTIPOLYGON (((970217.022 145643.332, 970227....
1    MULTIPOLYGON (((1029606.077 156073.814, 102957...
2    MULTIPOLYGON (((1021176.479 151374.797, 102100...
3    MULTIPOLYGON (((981219.056 188655.316, 980940....
4    MULTIPOLYGON (((1012821.806 229228.265, 101278...
Name: geometry, dtype: geometry

geopandas.GeoSeries.explode geopandas.GeoSeries.from_wkb