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mhweber / explode.py
Created July 25, 2016 17:45 — forked from debboutr/explode.py
Explode MultiPolygon geometry into individual Polygon geometries in a shapefile using GeoPandas and Shapely
import geopands as gpd
from shapely.geometry.polygon import Polygon
from shapely.geometry.multipolygon import MultiPolygon
def explode(indata):
indf = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_file(indata)
outdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(columns=indf.columns)
for idx, row in indf.iterrows():
if type(row.geometry) == Polygon:
outdf = outdf.append(row,ignore_index=True)