geopandas.GeoSeries.covered_by

GeoSeries.covered_by(other, align=True)

Returns a Series of dtype('bool') with value True for each aligned geometry that is entirely covered by other.

An object A is said to cover another object B if no points of B lie in the exterior of A.

The operation works on a 1-to-1 row-wise manner:

../../../_images/binary_op-01.svg

See https://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/subtleties-of-ogc-covers-spatial.html for reference.

Parameters
otherGeoseries or geometric object

The Geoseries (elementwise) or geometric object to check is being covered.

alignbool (default True)

If True, automatically aligns GeoSeries based on their indices. If False, the order of elements is preserved.

Returns
Series (bool)

Notes

This method works in a row-wise manner. It does not check if an element of one GeoSeries is covered_by any element of the other one.

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon, LineString, Point
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Polygon([(0.5, 0.5), (1.5, 0.5), (1.5, 1.5), (0.5, 1.5)]),
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (2, 0), (2, 2), (0, 2)]),
...         LineString([(1, 1), (1.5, 1.5)]),
...         Point(0, 0),
...     ],
... )
>>> s2 = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (2, 0), (2, 2), (0, 2)]),
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (2, 2), (0, 2)]),
...         LineString([(0, 0), (2, 2)]),
...         Point(0, 0),
...     ],
...     index=range(1, 5),
... )
>>> s
0    POLYGON ((0.50000 0.50000, 1.50000 0.50000, 1....
1    POLYGON ((0.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 0.00000, 2....
2        LINESTRING (1.00000 1.00000, 1.50000 1.50000)
3                              POINT (0.00000 0.00000)
dtype: geometry
>>> s2
1    POLYGON ((0.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 0.00000, 2....
2    POLYGON ((0.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 2.00000, 0....
3        LINESTRING (0.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 2.00000)
4                              POINT (0.00000 0.00000)
dtype: geometry

We can check if each geometry of GeoSeries is covered by a single geometry:

../../../_images/binary_op-03.svg
>>> poly = Polygon([(0, 0), (2, 0), (2, 2), (0, 2)])
>>> s.covered_by(poly)
0    True
1    True
2    True
3    True
dtype: bool

We can also check two GeoSeries against each other, row by row. The GeoSeries above have different indices. We can either align both GeoSeries based on index values and compare elements with the same index using align=True or ignore index and compare elements based on their matching order using align=False:

../../../_images/binary_op-02.svg
>>> s.covered_by(s2, align=True)
0    False
1     True
2     True
3     True
4    False
dtype: bool
>>> s.covered_by(s2, align=False)
0     True
1    False
2     True
3     True
dtype: bool