st_centroid

Important

This feature is in Public Preview.

Returns the centroid of the input geometry as a 2D point geometry.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see st_centroid function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.st_centroid(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	A Geography or Geometry value.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('POLYGON((1 0, 0.5 0.866, -0.5 0.866, -1 0, -0.5 -0.866, 0.5 -0.866, 1 0))',)], ['wkt'])
df.select(dbf.st_astext(dbf.st_centroid(dbf.st_geomfromtext('wkt'))).alias('result')).collect()

[Row(result='POINT(0 0)')]