Shapely coordinate sequence to GeoDataFrame

Question

Using the shapely bounding box function box, and a GeoDataFrameof points, I have extracted a bounding box and created a buffer around it (below gdf is a GeoDataFrameof points):

bbox=shapely.geometry.box(*gdf.geometry.total_bounds)
bbox=bbox.buffer(5)

Now I check and see that bbox is a shapely polygon:

type(bbox)
shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon

My goal is, from this shapely polygon, to create a 1-row GeoDataFramewith Polygon geometry. I know that I can get all the coordinates that make up this polygon with:

[*bbox.exterior.coords] 

This returns the list of coordinates from a coordinate sequence object which looks like this:

[*bbox.exterior.coords][:5]
[(151.20138500000007, -43.787852999999984),
 (-151.40006999399998, -43.787852999999984),
 (-151.89015569564776, -43.76377663336097),
 (-152.3755216040806, -43.69177940201614),
 (-152.85149338027227, -43.57255467866103)]

However, I cannot seem to figure out how to convert these pairs of coordinates into a GeoDataFrame. I have tried:

crs = {'init': 'epsg:4326'}
polygon = gpd.GeoDataFrame(index=[0], crs=crs, geometry=[*bbox.exterior.coords]) 

which returns the error:

TypeError: Input must be valid geometry objects: (151.20138500000007, -43.787852999999984)

How, then, does one make these coordinate pair tuples into valid geometry objects for a GeoDataFrame?

Answer 1

• Make a shapely polygon geometry from coordinate pairs.
• Pass the polygon to GeoDataFrame constructor as a list.

  import geopandas as gpd
  from shapely.geometry import Polygon
  
  coords = [(151.20138500000007, -43.787852999999984),
            (-151.40006999399998, -43.787852999999984),
            (-151.89015569564776, -43.76377663336097),
            (-152.3755216040806, -43.69177940201614),
            (-152.85149338027227, -43.57255467866103)]
  
  polygon = Polygon(coords)
  
  gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(index=[0], crs='epsg:4326', geometry=[polygon])
  print(gdf)
  
  # OUTPUT
  #                                             geometry
  # 0  POLYGON ((151.20139 -43.78785, -151.40007 -43....