Return List Of Points Within Polygon Geopandas

I have a shapefile of London with over 4000 unique polygons representing lsoa areas. I have also created a geodataframe of points representing sensors in the city. I need to work o

Solution 1:

I have found a very simple solution using a spatial join as follows:

merge = gpd.sjoin(map_df, sensors, how="right", op='contains')

    index_left  LSOA11CD    LSOA11NM    pod_id_location Borough Latitude    Longitude   geometry
index_right                             
0   199 E01000204   Barnet 025C 1245    Barnet  51.604486   -0.206551   POINT (-0.20655 51.60449)
1   897 E01000915   Camden 027A 2245    Camden  51.521880   -0.120434   POINT (-0.12043 51.52188)