geopandas.GeoDataFrame.to_wkb

GeoDataFrame.to_wkb(hex=False, **kwargs)

Encode all geometry columns in the GeoDataFrame 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 pygeos.to_wkb() if pygeos is installed.

Returns
DataFrame

geometry columns are encoded to WKB