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The objective is to create a geoDataFrame with buffered geometries AND with all the "attributes" of the original geodataframe.

I am able to perform a buffer on my geoDataFrame using:

gdfHybasBuffer = gdfHybas['geometry'].buffer(-0.005,resolution=16)

but the result is a geoSeries and not a geoDataFrame, and therefore does not contain the data from the original geoDataFrame nor does it contain an index to join the data to the original data. Is there a better way to perform a buffer while maintaining the original attribute data?

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It is pretty straight forward to create a buffer on a geopandas geoSeries.

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  • I already found one error in my code: gdfHybas = gdfHybas.set_index('PFAF_ID') instead of gdfHybas.set_index('PFAF_ID'). In that case, the index will be preserved in the geoSeries and I can use merge to replace the old geometry with the new buffers Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 20:27
  • The next problem I encountered when using geopandas merge, is that it does not by default merge on the indices (if you do not specify "on=") Commented Aug 24, 2017 at 20:54

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from shapely.geometry import Point
import pandas as pd
import geopandas as gpd
p1 = Point((1,2))
p2 = Point((5,6))
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [11,22]})
gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(df, geometry = [p1,p2])
gdf
#out: 
#   a   geometry
#0  11  POINT (1 2)
#1  22  POINT (5 6)

You can directly assign the buffer as a new geometry column to your GeoDataFrame:

gdf['geometry'] = gdf.geometry.buffer(2)
#out:
#   a   geometry
#0  11  POLYGON ((3 2, 2.990369453344394 1.80396571934...
#1  22  POLYGON ((7 6, 6.990369453344394 5.80396571934...
gdf.plot()

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  • This won't work if your original dataframe has null geometries Commented Mar 30, 2019 at 16:44
  • @user32882 you cannot even create a GeoDataFrame if your input geometries are not valid Commented Mar 31, 2019 at 22:47
  • not invalid... null geometry (empty) its not the same thing Commented Apr 1, 2019 at 6:30
  • can you give an example? Commented Apr 1, 2019 at 9:39
  • @Alz Does this mean that the geopandas overlay and geometry manipulation functions are vectorized? Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 18:40

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