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Shapely

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Python library for manipulation and analysis of planar geometric objects.

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License

BSD-3-Clause

Founded

2007

About

Shapely is a BSD-licensed Python package for manipulation and analysis of planar geometric objects. It's based on the GEOS library and provides operations like intersection, union, and buffer.

Features

Manipulation of planar geometric objects
Built on the GEOS library
Buffer, intersection, union and difference operations
Vectorized NumPy-based operations
Reads and writes WKT and WKB
Core geometry dependency of GeoPandas

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Details

Type: Library
Pricing: open-source
License: BSD-3-Clause

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Python

Geos