bigframes.bigquery.st_distance

bigframes.bigquery.st_distance(series: Series | GeoSeries, other: Series | GeoSeries | BaseGeometry, *, use_spheroid: bool = False) → Series

Returns the shortest distance in meters between two non-empty GEOGRAPHY objects.

Examples:

>>> import bigframes as bpd
>>> import bigframes.bigquery as bbq
>>> import bigframes.geopandas
>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon, LineString, Point

We can check two GeoSeries against each other, row by row.

>>> s1 = bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries(
...    [
...        Point(0, 0),
...        Point(0.00001, 0),
...        Point(0.00002, 0),
...    ],
... )
>>> s2 = bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries(
...    [
...        Point(0.00001, 0),
...        Point(0.00003, 0),
...        Point(0.00005, 0),
...    ],
... )

>>> bbq.st_distance(s1, s2, use_spheroid=True)
0    1.113195
1     2.22639
2    3.339585
dtype: Float64

We can also calculate the distance of each geometry and a single shapely geometry:

>>> bbq.st_distance(s2, Point(0.00001, 0))
0         0.0
1    2.223902
2    4.447804
dtype: Float64

Parameters:

• series (bigframes.pandas.Series | bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries) – A series containing geography objects.

• other (bigframes.pandas.Series | bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries | shapely.Geometry) – The series or geometric object to calculate the distance in meters to form the geography objects in series.

• use_spheroid (optional, default False) – Determines how this function measures distance. If use_spheroid is False, the function measures distance on the surface of a perfect sphere. If use_spheroid is True, the function measures distance on the surface of the WGS84 spheroid. The default value of use_spheroid is False.

Returns:

The Series (elementwise) of the smallest distance between each aligned geometry with other.

Return type:

bigframes.pandas.Series