Converting a column of Polygons from string to GeoPandas geometry

python polygon geopandas

The format of your polygon is WKT, so you have to convert it to shapely Polygon. Following Geopandas docs (https://geopandas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gallery/create_geopandas_from_pandas.html) do following

Using GeoPandas 0.9+:

df['geometry'] = gpd.GeoSeries.from_wkt(df['geometry'])my_geo_df = gpd.GeoDataFrame(my_df, geometry='geometry')

Using older versions:

from shapely import wktdf['geometry'] = df['geometry'].apply(wkt.loads)my_geo_df = gpd.GeoDataFrame(my_df, geometry='geometry')

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