googleapis · tswast · Apr 22, 2025 · Apr 21, 2025 · Apr 21, 2025 · Apr 21, 2025
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@
     unix_millis,
     unix_seconds,
 )
-from bigframes.bigquery._operations.geo import st_area, st_difference, st_intersection
+from bigframes.bigquery._operations.geo import (
+    st_area,
+    st_difference,
+    st_distance,
+    st_intersection,
+)
 from bigframes.bigquery._operations.json import (
     json_extract,
     json_extract_array,
@@ -49,6 +54,7 @@
     # geo ops
     "st_area",
     "st_difference",
+    "st_distance",
     "st_intersection",
     # json ops
     "json_set",

@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from typing import Union
+
+import shapely  # type: ignore
+
 from bigframes import operations as ops
-import bigframes.dtypes
 import bigframes.geopandas
 import bigframes.series
 
@@ -25,7 +28,9 @@
 """
 
 
-def st_area(series: bigframes.series.Series) -> bigframes.series.Series:
+def st_area(
+    series: Union[bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries],
+) -> bigframes.series.Series:
     """
     Returns the area in square meters covered by the polygons in the input
     `GEOGRAPHY`.
@@ -85,6 +90,10 @@ def st_area(series: bigframes.series.Series) -> bigframes.series.Series:
         4            0.0
         dtype: Float64
 
+    Args:
+        series (bigframes.pandas.Series | bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries):
+            A series containing geography objects.
+
     Returns:
       bigframes.pandas.Series:
           Series of float representing the areas.
@@ -95,7 +104,10 @@ def st_area(series: bigframes.series.Series) -> bigframes.series.Series:
 
 
 def st_difference(
-    series: bigframes.series.Series, other: bigframes.series.Series
+    series: Union[bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries],
+        other: Union[
+        bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries, shapely.Geometry
+    ],
 ) -> bigframes.series.Series:
     """
     Returns a `GEOGRAPHY` that represents the point set difference of
@@ -166,44 +178,23 @@ def st_difference(
         5                                               None
         dtype: geometry
 
-    We can also check difference of single shapely geometries:
-
-        >>> polygon_s1 = bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries(
-        ...     [
-        ...         Polygon([(0, 0), (10, 0), (10, 10), (0, 0)])
-        ...     ]
-        ... )
-        >>> polygon_s2 = bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries(
-        ...     [
-        ...         Polygon([(4, 2), (6, 2), (8, 6), (4, 2)])
-        ...     ]
-        ... )
-
-        >>> polygon_s1
-        0    POLYGON ((0 0, 10 0, 10 10, 0 0))
-        dtype: geometry
-
-        >>> polygon_s2
-        0    POLYGON ((4 2, 6 2, 8 6, 4 2))
-        dtype: geometry
-
-        >>> bbq.st_difference(polygon_s1, polygon_s2)
-        0    POLYGON ((0 0, 10 0, 10 10, 0 0), (8 6, 6 2, 4...
-        dtype: geometry
-
     Additionally, we can check difference of a GeoSeries against a single shapely geometry:
 
-        >>> bbq.st_difference(s1, polygon_s2)
-        0    POLYGON ((0 0, 2 2, 0 2, 0 0))
-        1                              None
-        2                              None
-        3                              None
-        4                              None
+        >>> polygon = Polygon([(0, 0), (10, 0), (10, 10), (0, 0)])
+        >>> bbq.st_difference(s1, polygon)
+        0    POLYGON ((1.97082 2.00002, 0 2, 0 0, 1.97082 2...
+        1    POLYGON ((1.97082 2.00002, 0 2, 0 0, 1.97082 2...
+        2                             GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY
+        3                    LINESTRING (0.99265 1.00781, 0 2)
+        4                                          POINT (0 1)
         dtype: geometry
 
     Args:
-        other (bigframes.series.Series or geometric object):
-            The GeoSeries (elementwise) or geometric object to find the difference to.
+        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 subtract from the geography
+            objects in ``series``.
 
     Returns:
         bigframes.series.Series:
@@ -213,8 +204,86 @@ def st_difference(
     return series._apply_binary_op(other, ops.geo_st_difference_op)
 
 
+def st_distance(
+    series: Union[bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries],
+    other: Union[
+        bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries, shapely.Geometry
+    ],
+    *,
+    use_spheroid: bool = False,
+) -> bigframes.series.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
+        >>> bpd.options.display.progress_bar = None
+
+    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
+
+    Args:
+        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 from 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
+            <https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/geospatial-data>`_. The
+            default value of ``use_spheroid`` is False.
+
+    Returns:
+        bigframes.pandas.Series:
+            The Series (elementwise) of the smallest distance between
+            each aligned geometry with other.
+    """
+    return series._apply_binary_op(
+        other, ops.GeoStDistanceOp(use_spheroid=use_spheroid)
+    )
+
+
 def st_intersection(
-    series: bigframes.series.Series, other: bigframes.series.Series
+    series: Union[bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries],
+    other: Union[
+        bigframes.series.Series, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries, shapely.Geometry
+    ],
 ) -> bigframes.series.Series:
     """
     Returns a `GEOGRAPHY` that represents the point set intersection of the two
@@ -284,18 +353,20 @@ def st_intersection(
 
     We can also do intersection of each geometry and a single shapely geometry:
 
-        >>> bbq.st_intersection(s1, bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries([Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)])]))
+        >>> bbq.st_intersection(s1, Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]))
         0    POLYGON ((0 0, 0.99954 1, 0 1, 0 0))
-        1                                    None
-        2                                    None
-        3                                    None
-        4                                    None
+        1    POLYGON ((0 0, 0.99954 1, 0 1, 0 0))
+        2             LINESTRING (0 0, 0.99954 1)
+        3                GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY
+        4                             POINT (0 1)
         dtype: geometry
 
     Args:
-        other (GeoSeries or geometric object):
-            The Geoseries (elementwise) or geometric object to find the
-            intersection with.
+        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 intersect with the geography
+            o
F438
bjects in ``series``.
 
     Returns:
         bigframes.geopandas.GeoSeries:

@@ -1023,6 +1023,13 @@ def geo_st_difference_op_impl(x: ibis_types.Value, y: ibis_types.Value):
     )
 
 
+@scalar_op_compiler.register_binary_op(ops.GeoStDistanceOp, pass_op=True)
+def geo_st_distance_op_impl(
+    x: ibis_types.Value, y: ibis_types.Value, op: ops.GeoStDistanceOp
+):
+    return st_distance(x, y, op.use_spheroid)
+
+
 @scalar_op_compiler.register_unary_op(ops.geo_st_geogfromtext_op)
 def geo_st_geogfromtext_op_impl(x: ibis_types.Value):
     # Ibis doesn't seem to provide a dedicated method to cast from string to geography,
@@ -1989,6 +1996,11 @@ def st_boundary(a: ibis_dtypes.geography) -> ibis_dtypes.geography:  # type: ign
     """Find the boundary of a geography."""
 
 
+@ibis_udf.scalar.builtin
+def st_distance(a: ibis_dtypes.geography, b: ibis_dtypes.geography, use_spheroid: bool) -> ibis_dtypes.float:  # type: ignore
+    """Convert string to geography."""
+
+
 @ibis_udf.scalar.builtin
 def unix_micros(a: ibis_dtypes.timestamp) -> int:  # type: ignore
     """Convert a timestamp to microseconds"""

@@ -586,30 +586,32 @@ def _is_bigframes_dtype(dtype) -> bool:
     return False
 
 
-def _infer_dtype_from_python_type(type: type) -> Dtype:
-    if type in (datetime.timedelta, pd.Timedelta, np.timedelta64):
+def _infer_dtype_from_python_type(type_: type) -> Dtype:
+    if type_ in (datetime.timedelta, pd.Timedelta, np.timedelta64):
         # Must check timedelta type first. Otherwise other branchs will be evaluated to true
         # E.g. np.timedelta64 is a sublcass as np.integer
         return TIMEDELTA_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, (bool, np.bool_)):
+    if issubclass(type_, (bool, np.bool_)):
         return BOOL_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, (int, np.integer)):
+    if issubclass(type_, (int, np.integer)):
         return INT_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, (float, np.floating)):
+    if issubclass(type_, (float, np.floating)):
         return FLOAT_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, decimal.Decimal):
+    if issubclass(type_, decimal.Decimal):
         return NUMERIC_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, (str, np.str_)):
+    if issubclass(type_, (str, np.str_)):
         return STRING_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, (bytes, np.bytes_)):
+    if issubclass(type_, (bytes, np.bytes_)):
         return BYTES_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, datetime.date):
+    if issubclass(type_, datetime.date):
         return DATE_DTYPE
-    if issubclass(type, datetime.time):
+    if issubclass(type_, datetime.time):
         return TIME_DTYPE
+    if issubclass(type_, shapely.Geometry):
+        return GEO_DTYPE
     else:
         raise TypeError(
-            f"No matching datatype for python type: {type}. {constants.FEEDBACK_LINK}"
+            f"No matching datatype for python type: {type_}. {constants.FEEDBACK_LINK}"
         )
 
 

@@ -47,23 +47,6 @@ def y(self) -> bigframes.series.Series:
     # we can.
     @property
     def area(self, crs=None) -> bigframes.series.Series:  # type: ignore
-        """Returns a Series containing the area of each geometry in the GeoSeries
-        expressed in the units of the CRS.
-
-        Args:
-            crs (optional):
-                Coordinate Reference System of the geometry objects. Can be
-                anything accepted by pyproj.CRS.from_user_input(), such as an
-                authority string (eg “EPSG:4326”) or a WKT string.
-
-        Returns:
-            bigframes.pandas.Series:
-                Series of float representing the areas.
-
-        Raises:
-            NotImplementedError:
-                GeoSeries.area is not supported. Use bigframes.bigquery.st_area(series), instead.
-        """
         raise NotImplementedError(
             f"GeoSeries.area is not supported. Use bigframes.bigquery.st_area(series), instead. {constants.FEEDBACK_LINK}"
         )
@@ -97,5 +80,10 @@ def to_wkt(self: GeoSeries) -> bigframes.series.Series:
     def difference(self: GeoSeries, other: GeoSeries) -> bigframes.series.Series:  # type: ignore
         return self._apply_binary_op(other, ops.geo_st_difference_op)
 
+    def distance(self: GeoSeries, other: GeoSeries) -> bigframes.series.Series:  # type: ignore
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            f"GeoSeries.distance is not supported. Use bigframes.bigquery.st_distance(series, other), instead. {constants.FEEDBACK_LINK}"
+        )
+
     def intersection(self: GeoSeries, other: GeoSeries) -> bigframes.series.Series:  # type: ignore
         return self._apply_binary_op(other, ops.geo_st_intersection_op)
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
     geo_st_intersection_op,
     geo_x_op,
     geo_y_op,
+    GeoStDistanceOp,
 )
 from bigframes.operations.json_ops import (
     JSONExtract,
@@ -375,6 +376,7 @@
     "geo_st_intersection_op",
     "geo_x_op",
     "geo_y_op",
+    "GeoStDistanceOp",
     # Numpy ops mapping
     "NUMPY_TO_BINOP",
     "NUMPY_TO_OP",

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import dataclasses
+
 from bigframes import dtypes
 from bigframes.operations import base_ops
 import bigframes.operations.type as op_typing
@@ -69,3 +71,12 @@
 geo_st_intersection_op = base_ops.create_binary_op(
     name="geo_st_intersection", type_signature=op_typing.BinaryGeo()
 )
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class GeoStDistanceOp(base_ops.BinaryOp):
+    name = "st_distance"
+    use_spheroid: bool
+
+    def output_type(self, *input_types: dtypes.ExpressionType) -> dtypes.ExpressionType:
+        return dtypes.FLOAT_DTYPE
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
     "pyarrow >=15.0.2",
     "pydata-google-auth >=1.8.2",
     "requests >=2.27.1",
-    "shapely >=1.8.5",
+    "shapely >=2.0.0",
     "sqlglot >=23.6.3",
     "tabulate >=0.9",
     "ipywidgets >=7.7.1",