Getting started

Installation

geofileops is written in python, but it relies on several other libraries that have dependencies written in C. Those C dependencies can be difficult to install, but luckily the conda package management system also gives an easy alternative.

The easy way

If you don’t have conda installed yet, you can install it using the miniforge installer.

Now start the conda prompt and create a new conda environment with the following commands:

conda create -n geo
conda activate geo

If you use e.g. anaconda or miniconda instead of a miniforge installation, also run following commands to specify that all depencencies should be installed from the conda-forge channel. Mixing packages from multiple channels is bound to give problems sooner or later:

conda config --env --add channels conda-forge
conda config --env --set channel_priority strict

Finally, you can install geofileops:

conda install python=3.10 geofileops

The hard way

If you are not able/willing to use conda to install the dependencies, please follow the instructions to install GeoPandas.

Afterwards you can install geofileops with pip.