geopandas.GeoSeries.from_arrow#

classmethod GeoSeries.from_arrow(arr, **kwargs)[source]#

Construct a GeoSeries from an Arrow array object with a GeoArrow extension type.

See https://geoarrow.org/ for details on the GeoArrow specification.

This functions accepts any Arrow array object implementing the Arrow PyCapsule Protocol (i.e. having an __arrow_c_array__ method).

Added in version 1.0.

Parameters:

arrpyarrow.Array, Arrow array: Any array object implementing the Arrow PyCapsule Protocol (i.e. has an __arrow_c_array__ or __arrow_c_stream__ method). The type of the array should be one of the geoarrow geometry types.
**kwargs: Other parameters passed to the GeoSeries constructor.

Returns:

GeoSeries

See also

GeoSeries.to_arrow

Examples

>>> import geoarrow.pyarrow as ga
>>> array = ga.as_geoarrow(
... [None, "POLYGON ((0 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))", "LINESTRING (0 0, -1 1, 0 -1)"])
>>> geoseries = geopandas.GeoSeries.from_arrow(array)
>>> geoseries
0                              None
1    POLYGON ((0 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))
2      LINESTRING (0 0, -1 1, 0 -1)
dtype: geometry