From 6b52f6ca9b490ed83337d69b524ad251925cc279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dewey Dunnington <dewey@wherobots.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:00:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add to docs

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 docs/tutorial/geopandas-shapely.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/geopandas-shapely.md b/docs/tutorial/geopandas-shapely.md
index 2e78442876..bc286229b3 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/geopandas-shapely.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/geopandas-shapely.md
@@ -115,6 +115,26 @@ gdf.plot(
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+You may also wish to try converting to GeoPandas via GeoArrow, which can be
+significantly faster for large results (requires geopandas >= 1.0).
+
+```python
+import geopandas as gpd
+from sedona.spark import dataframe_to_arrow
+
+config = SedonaContext.builder().
+	getOrCreate()
+
+sedona = SedonaContext.create(config)
+
+test_wkt = ["POINT (0 1)", "LINESTRING (0 1, 2 3)"]
+df = sedona.createDataFrame(zip(test_wkt), ["wkt"]).selectExpr(
+    "ST_GeomFromText(wkt) as geom"
+)
+
+gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_arrow(dataframe_to_arrow(df))
+```
+
 ## Interoperate with shapely objects
 
 ### Supported Shapely objects