Calculate Distance Between Geometric Points

Calculates the distance between two geometric points.

Technology Stack : GeoPandas, Shapely, NumPy

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def calculate_distance_between_points(geometry1, geometry2):
    from geopandas import GeoDataFrame
    from shapely.geometry import Point
    import numpy as np

    # Create GeoDataFrame
    gdf = GeoDataFrame([geometry1, geometry2])

    # Calculate the distance between the points
    distances = gdf['geometry'].distance(gdf['geometry'])

    return distances.iloc[0]