Geopandas
is able to read in only part of a file using:
roi= geopandas.GeoDataFrame(geometry)
indexed_data = geopandas.read_file("path-to-file", mask=roi)
or
geopandas.read_file("path-to-file", bbox=(0, 0, 10, 20))
However, some of the vector data I want to read extends (far) beyond the bbox / mask as the full line which comes into contact with the bbox / mask is included. To avoid reading superfluous data, I would like to clip the vector while reading it into Python.
Is there a method to read vector data while clipping it by a certain region?
Reading all data and subsequently clipping it to a region would be an option, but is rather avoided since the data set is quite large.
mask
parameter is fine? have you tried it tho? did it take long?