geopandas.GeoDataFrame.explode¶

GeoDataFrame.explode(column=None, **kwargs)¶

Explode muti-part geometries into multiple single geometries.

Each row containing a multi-part geometry will be split into multiple rows with single geometries, thereby increasing the vertical size of the GeoDataFrame.

The index of the input geodataframe is no longer unique and is replaced with a multi-index (original index with additional level indicating the multiple geometries: a new zero-based index for each single part geometry per multi-part geometry).

Returns

GeoDataFrame: Exploded geodataframe with each single geometry as a separate entry in the geodataframe.

See also

GeoDataFrame.dissolve: dissolve geometries into a single observation.

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import MultiPoint
>>> d = {
...     "col1": ["name1", "name2"],
...     "geometry": [
...         MultiPoint([(1, 2), (3, 4)]),
...         MultiPoint([(2, 1), (0, 0)]),
...     ],
... }
>>> gdf = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(d, crs=4326)
>>> gdf
    col1                                       geometry
0  name1  MULTIPOINT (1.00000 2.00000, 3.00000 4.00000)
1  name2  MULTIPOINT (2.00000 1.00000, 0.00000 0.00000)

>>> exploded = gdf.explode()
>>> exploded
      col1                 geometry
0 0  name1  POINT (1.00000 2.00000)
  1  name1  POINT (3.00000 4.00000)
1 0  name2  POINT (2.00000 1.00000)
  1  name2  POINT (0.00000 0.00000)

geopandas.GeoDataFrame.dissolve geopandas.GeoDataFrame.plot