This Python package allows the calculation of distance between two polygons. Polygons may have thematic attributes (e.g. name) to add further description.

The available geometric distance functions between polygons are:

• Hausdorff distance
• Chamfer distance
• PoLis distance
• Turn function distance

The avaiable thematic distance functions are:

• Levenshtein distance

For Windows:

1. Follow the steps described here to download geopandas.
2. Resolve the geos_c.dll file missing error by running conda install shapely as described here.