geopandas.GeoSeries.to_wkb#

GeoSeries.to_wkb(hex=False, **kwargs)[source]#

Convert GeoSeries geometries to WKB.

Parameters:

hexbool: If true, export the WKB as a hexadecimal string. The default is to return a binary bytes object.
kwargs: Additional keyword args will be passed to shapely.to_wkb().

Returns:

Series: WKB representations of the geometries

See also

GeoSeries.to_wkt

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import Point, Polygon
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Point(0, 0),
...         Polygon(),
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (1, 0)]),
...         None,
...     ]
... )

>>> s.to_wkb()
0    b'\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00...
1              b'\x01\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
2    b'\x01\x03\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x04\x00...
3                                                 None
dtype: object

>>> s.to_wkb(hex=True)
0           010100000000000000000000000000000000000000
1                                   010300000000000000
2    0103000000010000000400000000000000000000000000...
3                                                  NaN
dtype: str