https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatial-dataframe-not-honoring-z-value/m-p/1288300#M8684 <P>I have&nbsp; geopandas data frame with linestring values. When I export from geopandas, my shapefile has_z = True.</P><P>When I convert this geodataframe to a spatial data frame and export from the spatial dataframe, the has_Z is False</P><P>Why would this happen?</P> Thu, 11 May 2023 18:16:25 GMT CarlSunderman 2023-05-11T18:16:25Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatial-dataframe-not-honoring-z-value/m-p/1288300#M8684 <P>I have&nbsp; geopandas data frame with linestring values. When I export from geopandas, my shapefile has_z = True.</P><P>When I convert this geodataframe to a spatial data frame and export from the spatial dataframe, the has_Z is False</P><P>Why would this happen?</P> Thu, 11 May 2023 18:16:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatial-dataframe-not-honoring-z-value/m-p/1288300#M8684 CarlSunderman 2023-05-11T18:16:25Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatial-dataframe-not-honoring-z-value/m-p/1289278#M8693 <P>Converting from the geodataframe that has z values to a spatial data frame, I lose the z values.</P><P>When I export out a shapefile from the geopandas geodataframe, then load that back into the arcgis spatial data frame, the spatial data frame has z enabled.&nbsp;</P><P>So I cannot convert from a geodataframe to a spatial dataframe and keep the z values? I will need to write out to a shapefile, then read it back in to get the z enabled sdf</P> Mon, 15 May 2023 18:46:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatial-dataframe-not-honoring-z-value/m-p/1289278#M8693 CarlSunderman 2023-05-15T18:46:03Z