Geopandas polygon to line

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I am new to geopandas and would like to plot only the outline of a polygon, similar to the function ST_Boundary() in PostGIS

I have a geodataframe states containing polygons for each state

states = counties.dissolve(by='STATEFP')

When I subset by one state, I am able to plot that state:

states.loc[states.index.isin(['06'])]['geometry']

I am only interested in the outline but it is not clear in the documentation how to convert a polygon to line geometry however. Is there a useful method in geopandas or another spatial library that might help in converting a polygon to a linestring?

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2 Answers

You can get boundary as

states.boundary

Alternatively, if you want only exterior boundary you get it as

states.exterior

Those give you new GeoSeries with line geometry.

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It seems like .exterior returns a geometry of type 'linear ring', whereas .boundary returns a geometry of type 'linestring' - this may be important when it comes to writing the line geometries to file - I had issues writing 'linear ring' to GPKG and SHP but it worked for 'linestring'.

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