Is it possible to do Geospatial Ops with a Pandas Backend?

[koshy1123]

The Operation Support Matrix (as of Oct 12, 2022) seems to indicate the Geo* operations are supported for the Pandas backend. I tried to use it but hit a NotImplementedError:

NotImplementedError: Binary operation GeoIntersects not implemented

Following the code, I see a list of binary operators currently supported and the Geo* aren't listed.

ibis/ibis/backends/pandas/execution/constants.py

Lines 61 to 79 in 29d8a2c

	BINARY_OPERATIONS = {
	ops.Greater: operator.gt,
	ops.Less: operator.lt,
	ops.LessEqual: operator.le,
	ops.GreaterEqual: operator.ge,
	ops.Equals: operator.eq,
	ops.NotEquals: operator.ne,
	ops.And: operator.and_,
	ops.Or: operator.or_,
	ops.Xor: operator.xor,
	ops.Add: operator.add,
	ops.Subtract: operator.sub,
	ops.Multiply: operator.mul,
	ops.Divide: operator.truediv,
	ops.FloorDivide: operator.floordiv,
	ops.Modulus: operator.mod,
	ops.Power: operator.pow,
	ops.IdenticalTo: lambda x, y: (x == y) | (pd.isnull(x) & pd.isnull(y)),
	}

Is it fair to assume it was just misspecified in the Operation Support Matrix? If not, does anyone have a simple reproducible working example?

[gforsyth]

Hey @koshy1123 -- sorry for the delay in responding here.
We have a bug in the code that generates the operation support matrix -- The pandas and dask backends do NOT support geospatial operations via Ibis. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

xref #4699