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Posted on February 23, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Adding circle polygon to folium map (using OGR and Python) creates an oval – why?

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How do you plot a polygon in Folium?

Plotting polygons with Folium

  1. [2]: path = gpd. get_path(‘nybb’) df = gpd. read_file(path) df. head()
  2. [3]: df. plot(figsize=(6, 6)) plt. show()
  3. [5]: # Use WGS 84 (epsg:4326) as the geographic coordinate system df = df. to_crs(epsg=4326) print(df. crs) df. head()
  4. [6]: df. plot(figsize=(6, 6)) plt. show()


What does the Folium package create?

By default, Folium creates a map in a separate HTML file. Since Folium results are interactive, this library is very useful for dashboard building. You can also create inline Jupyter maps in Folium. Folium builds on the data wrangling strengths of the Python ecosystem and the mapping strengths of the Leaflet.

How do you plot a Folium map?

Create Folium map

  1. [6]: Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook. +− Leaflet | Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0.
  2. [7]: Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook. +−
  3. [8]: Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook. +−


What is Folium map class?

Folium is a library that uses JavaScript leaflet. js module in the background and it enables interactive map visualizations in Python.

How do you draw a polygon using the circle method?

Procedure: Set the compass to the radius of the circle and strike six equidistant arcs about its perimeter. Connect two neighboring intersections to the center of the circle. Bisect the resulting angle. Beginning at the intersection of the bisector and the circle strike six more arcs around the circle.

How do you draw a polygon shape?

Shaping Polygons

  1. Select the Polygon tool.
  2. Click in the drawing area to place the polygon’s center point.
  3. (Optional) By default, polygons have 5 sides.
  4. Move the cursor in or out from the center point to size the polygon and click to finish the shape.


How can you add marking objects such as circles markers or lines on a folium map?

Folium gives a folium. Marker() class for plotting markers on a map. Just pass the latitude and longitude of the location, mention the popup and tooltip and add it to the map.
 

How to plot latitude and longitude on a map in Python folium?

Map Latitude and Longitude Coordinates with Folium

  1. m = folium.Map(location = [-33.8, 151.2], tiles =’OpenStreetMap’, \ zoom_start=11)
  2. for i, row in df.iterrows(): lat = df.at[i, ‘lat’]
  3. popup = ‘Station : ‘ + str(df.at[i, ‘Stations’]) + ‘
    ‘ + \
  4. folium.Marker(location = [lat, lng], popup= popup, icon = \


Can folium use Google maps?

We used the geopy library to get the latitude and longitude of the location. Then we used the “folium. map” method of the folium package for creating the base of Google Maps.

How do you map a polygon?

Draw a path or polygon

  1. Open Google Earth.
  2. Go to a place on the map.
  3. Above the map, click Add Path . To add a shape, click Add Polygon.
  4. A “New Path” or “New Polygon” dialog will pop up.
  5. To draw the line or shape you want, click a start point on the map and drag.
  6. Click an endpoint.
  7. Click OK.


How do you plot polygon points in Python?

You can use the add_patch method of the axis object to plot the polygon.



If you want to draw polygons on a matrix representing an image, scikit-image has 3 functions for you:

  1. draw. polygon2mask(image_shape, polygon) that directly returns a bool-type numpy.
  2. draw.
  3. draw.

 

How do you draw a polygon mesh?

Select a mesh or poly object, go to a sub-object level, and on the Edit Geometry rollout, click Create.
 

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