Buffering Geometries in GeoDataFrame

This function applies a buffer distance to each geometry in the input GeoDataFrame using the GeoPandas library, and returns a new GeoDataFrame with the buffered geometries.

Technology Stack : GeoPandas

Code Type : Geographic data processing

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def calculate_buffer_distance(geo_df, buffer_distance):
    """
    This function calculates the buffer distance for each geometry in the GeoDataFrame
    and returns a new GeoDataFrame with the buffered geometries.
    """
    import geopandas as gpd

    # Buffer the geometries by the specified distance
    buffered_df = geo_df.buffer(buffer_distance)

    return buffered_df