add shapely

[JinyangWang27]

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shapely

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Why This Project Is Awesome

Which criterion does it meet? (pick one)

• Industry Standard - The go-to tool for a specific use case
• Rising Star - 5000+ stars in < 2 years, significant adoption
• Hidden Gem - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly

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How It Differs

Shapely is computational geometry, which focuses on creating and manipulating geometric objects (points/lines/polygons) and running exact geometric predicates and operations (intersects/contains, union/intersection, buffer, distance) in a CRS-agnostic Cartesian plane.

So, unlike GeoPandas (DataFrame-based geospatial analysis) or geolocation libraries (address/lat-lon lookups), Shapely is the low-level geometry engine many higher-level spatial libraries build on.

[nailson-landim]

Shapely is indeed a useful project. Need to know if a point is within a polygon? Needs to join polygons? Shapely does!

[vinta]

Thanks for submitting shapely - it's a great addition as an industry standard for computational geometry.

However, the entry needs to be placed in alphabetical order. Currently it's placed after SymPy, but it should be between SciPy and SimPy.

Please update the placement and the PR will be ready for merge.

[JinyangWang27]

Thanks for submitting shapely - it's a great addition as an industry standard for computational geometry.

However, the entry needs to be placed in alphabetical order. Currently it's placed after SymPy, but it should be between SciPy and SimPy.

Please update the placement and the PR will be ready for merge.

Thanks for pointing out, the order is corrected.