geopandas

Extends pandas Series and DataFrames to GeoSeries and GeoDataFrame, allowing data scientists to manipulate spatial data with familiar pandas methods like filtering and aggregation.

Integrates Shapely for cartesian geometry manipulations, enabling operations such as buffering, intersections, and unions directly on GeoSeries objects.

Supports storing and transforming coordinate reference systems with the to_crs() method, crucial for accurate geospatial work across different projections.

Reads and writes various geospatial formats via pyogrio, including shapefiles and GeoJSON, facilitating easy data exchange without external tools.