geopandas.GeoSeries.centroid

property GeoSeries.centroid

Returns a GeoSeries of points representing the centroid of each geometry.

Note that centroid does not have to be on or within original geometry.

See also

GeoSeries.representative_point

point guaranteed to be within each geometry

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon, LineString, Point
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]),
...         LineString([(0, 0), (1, 1), (1, 0)]),
...         Point(0, 0),
...     ]
... )
>>> s
0    POLYGON ((0.00000 0.00000, 1.00000 1.00000, 0....
1    LINESTRING (0.00000 0.00000, 1.00000 1.00000, ...
2                              POINT (0.00000 0.00000)
dtype: geometry

>>> s.centroid
0    POINT (0.33333 0.66667)
1    POINT (0.70711 0.50000)
2    POINT (0.00000 0.00000)
dtype: geometry

geopandas.GeoSeries.buffer geopandas.GeoSeries.convex_hull