Open-source Python library for geometric objects, used for spatial geometry calculations and vector analysis.
Shapely is an open-source Python geometry library for creating geometric objects such as points, lines and polygons and computing buffers, intersections, clipping, areas, distances and topological relationships. It is one of the core foundation libraries of Python GIS workflows.
Use cases: spatial geometry, vector analysis, Python GIS, topological relationships, buffer calculations
Note: usually used together with GeoPandas, Rasterio, PySAL and similar tools.
