Distance from within boundary in Shapely

What is Hausdorff distance in shapely?

The Hausdorff distance between two geometries is the furthest distance that a point on either geometry can be from the nearest point to it on the other geometry. Returns a cheaply computed point that is guaranteed to be within the geometric object. This is not in general the same as the centroid.

What is buffer in shapely?

buffer(0.2) , shapely will buffer the coordinates in polygon by 0.2 units. In your case, these are not meters, but degrees. If you want to buffer in meters, you first need to reproject your Polygon and Linestring into a CRS that uses meters.
 

What is a MultiPolygon shapely?

class MultiPolygon(polygons=None) A collection of one or more Polygons. If component polygons overlap the collection is invalid and some operations on it may fail.