Loading JSON into a GeoDataFrame

Question

I\'m having difficulty loading the following JSON containing GIS data (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/5rqd-h5ci.json) into a GeoDataFrame.

The following code fai

Answer 1

A more idiomatic way that uses regular dataframe functions inherited from pandas, and the native GeoDataFrame.from_features:

gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data.json())

# features column does not need to be stored, this is just for illustration
gdf['features'] = gdf['the_geom'].apply(lambda x: {'geometry': x, 'properties': {}})
gdf2 = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_features(gdf['features'])

gdf = gdf.set_geometry(gdf2.geometry)
gdf.head()