Unexpected intersects behavior between GeoSeries of Polygons and one of Points

Question

Given a dataset of geometries (shapes.geojson) and a dataset of points (poi.geojson), I would expect that all geometries visibly intersecting with the points in the below plot would be returned when performing an intersection with GeoPandas’ GeoSeries’ intersects method.

ax = shapes.plot(color='b')
poi.plot(ax=ax, color='r')

But, when the action is performed, the below two geometries are the only two returned. Plotting the poi.geojson in red shows where the other missing geometries might have been returned.

ax = shapes[shapes.intersects(poi)].plot(color='b')
poi.plot(ax=ax, color='r')

My hunch was that there was something irregular with the data that was causing this but my reviews have come up dry.

Full datasets available as in this Gist (using these will replicate the plots).

Example subset to be kept here, that will also reproduce the issue:

POI:

['POINT (-75.742553 39.206201)',
 'POINT (-75.74302 39.20764)',
 'POINT (-75.70948 39.19225)',
 'POINT (-75.74267 39.19168)',
 'POINT (-75.74307 39.20648)',
 'POINT (-75.7098 39.19458)',
 'POINT (-75.74302 39.20764)',
 'POINT (-75.742344 39.202771)',
 'POINT (-75.74335000000001 39.20829)',
 'POINT (-75.72824 39.20797)',
 'POINT (-75.73072019999999 39.1857066)',
 'POINT (-75.73072019999999 39.1857066)',
 'POINT (-75.72963 39.18498)',
 'POINT (-75.71019 39.19135)',
 'POINT (-75.72824 39.20797)',
 'POINT (-75.710331 39.193604)',
 'POINT (-75.74302 39.20764)',
 'POINT (-75.730403 39.185359)',
 'POINT (-75.734275 39.210892)',
 'POINT (-75.73140100000001 39.1848839)',
 'POINT (-75.723707 39.189565)',
 'POINT (-75.734275 39.210892)']

Shapes:

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Should this be relevant, I have attempted this on both GeoPandas 0.2.1 and 0.3.0.

Answer 1

I should not have been comparing with another GeoSeries but instead with a single Shapely object. One way to accomplish what I desired is through the following method:

from shapely.geometry import MultiPoint

single_shapely_compare = MultiPoint(poi_fresh.geometry)
ax = subset_fresh[subset_fresh.intersects(single_shapely_compare)].plot(color='b')
poi_fresh.plot(ax=ax, color='r')

This would have generated the following plot, which is the desired/expected result: