How to create a shapely Polygon from a list of shapely Points?
Question:
I want to create a polygon from shapely points.
from shapely import geometry
p1 = geometry.Point(0,0)
p2 = geometry.Point(1,0)
p3 = geometry.Point(1,1)
p4 = geometry.Point(0,1)
pointList = [p1, p2, p3, p4, p1]
poly = geometry.Polygon(pointList)
gives me an type error TypeError: object of type 'Point' has no len()
How to create a Polygon
from shapely Point
objects?
Answers:
The Polygon
constructor doesn’t expect a list of Point
objects but a list of point coordinates.
See https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#polygons
A Polygon
object requires a nested list of numbers, not a list of Point
objects.
polygon = Polygon([[0, 0], [1, 0], [1, 1], [0, 1]])
If you specifically want to construct your Polygon from the shapely geometry Points, then call their x, y properties in a list comprehension. In other words:
from shapely import geometry
poly = geometry.Polygon([[p.x, p.y] for p in pointList])
print(poly.wkt) # prints: 'POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))'
Note that shapely is clever enough to close the polygon on your behalf, i.e. you don’t necessarily have to pass-in the first point again at the end.
You could just do that instead:
p1 = geometry.Point(0,0)
p2 = geometry.Point(1,0)
p3 = geometry.Point(1,1)
p4 = geometry.Point(0,1)
pointList = [p1, p2, p3, p4]
poly = geometry.Polygon([i for i in pointList])
I want to create a polygon from shapely points.
from shapely import geometry
p1 = geometry.Point(0,0)
p2 = geometry.Point(1,0)
p3 = geometry.Point(1,1)
p4 = geometry.Point(0,1)
pointList = [p1, p2, p3, p4, p1]
poly = geometry.Polygon(pointList)
gives me an type error TypeError: object of type 'Point' has no len()
How to create a Polygon
from shapely Point
objects?
The Polygon
constructor doesn’t expect a list of Point
objects but a list of point coordinates.
See https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html#polygons
A Polygon
object requires a nested list of numbers, not a list of Point
objects.
polygon = Polygon([[0, 0], [1, 0], [1, 1], [0, 1]])
If you specifically want to construct your Polygon from the shapely geometry Points, then call their x, y properties in a list comprehension. In other words:
from shapely import geometry
poly = geometry.Polygon([[p.x, p.y] for p in pointList])
print(poly.wkt) # prints: 'POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 1, 0 0))'
Note that shapely is clever enough to close the polygon on your behalf, i.e. you don’t necessarily have to pass-in the first point again at the end.
You could just do that instead:
p1 = geometry.Point(0,0)
p2 = geometry.Point(1,0)
p3 = geometry.Point(1,1)
p4 = geometry.Point(0,1)
pointList = [p1, p2, p3, p4]
poly = geometry.Polygon([i for i in pointList])