Geopandas DataFrame ke OGR Layer

import geopandas as gpd
from osgeo import ogr

# Read file into GeoDataFrame
data = gpd.read_file("my_shapefile.shp")

# Pass the GeoDataFrame into ogr as GeoJson
shp = ogr.Open(data.to_json())

# Do your stuff with ogr ...
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