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June 17, 2016 17:16
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A quick and dirty poor man's clip using geopandas. First does a union between a plot shapefile and an overlapping features shapefilie, then subsets where attributes of the features shapefile are not null to get the features clipped to boundaries of plots.
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| Plots = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_file('Plots.shp') | |
| Plots.plot() | |
| Features = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_file('Features.shp') | |
| Features.plot() | |
| # union features | |
| Both = overlay(Plots, Features, how="union") | |
| Both.head() | |
| # 'clip' by getting rid of union features where attributes for plot are null in the union | |
| Clips = Both[pd.notnull(Both['ORIG_FID'])] | |
| Clips.plot() | |
| Clips.to_file('Clips.shp', driver = 'ESRI Shapefile') |
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I think overlay is wrong. Should it be gpd.overlay or from some other package because I get an error?