diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f93dd49c0..e94b90df7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 - fix a bug arising from the save_graph_xml function (#1093)
 - warn user if their query area is significantly larger than max query area size (#1101)
 - refactor utils_geo module and deprecate quadrat_width and min_num function arguments (#1100)
-- under-the-hood code clean-up (#1092 #1099)
+- under-the-hood code clean-up (#1092 #1099 #1103)
 
 ## 1.8.0 (2023-11-30)
 
diff --git a/osmnx/truncate.py b/osmnx/truncate.py
index 58f4c6069..8fc2409c7 100644
--- a/osmnx/truncate.py
+++ b/osmnx/truncate.py
@@ -21,11 +21,10 @@ def truncate_graph_dist(G, source_node, max_dist=1000, weight="length", retain_a
     G : networkx.MultiDiGraph
         input graph
     source_node : int
-        the node in the graph from which to measure network distances to other
-        nodes
-    max_dist : int
-        remove every node in the graph that is greater than this distance from
-        source_node (along the network)
+        node in graph from which to measure network distances to other nodes
+    max_dist : float
+        remove every node in the graph that is greater than this distance (in
+        same units as `weight` attribute) along the network from `source_node`
     weight : string
         graph edge attribute to use to measure distance
     retain_all : bool
diff --git a/osmnx/utils_graph.py b/osmnx/utils_graph.py
index df60642d7..fdca06db5 100644
--- a/osmnx/utils_graph.py
+++ b/osmnx/utils_graph.py
@@ -45,21 +45,21 @@ def graph_to_gdfs(G, nodes=True, edges=True, node_geometry=True, fill_edge_geome
             msg = "graph contains no nodes"
             raise ValueError(msg)
 
-        nodes, data = zip(*G.nodes(data=True))
+        uvk, data = zip(*G.nodes(data=True))
 
         if node_geometry:
             # convert node x/y attributes to Points for geometry column
-            geom = (Point(d["x"], d["y"]) for d in data)
-            gdf_nodes = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, index=nodes, crs=crs, geometry=list(geom))
+            node_geoms = (Point(d["x"], d["y"]) for d in data)
+            gdf_nodes = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, index=uvk, crs=crs, geometry=list(node_geoms))
         else:
-            gdf_nodes = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, index=nodes)
+            gdf_nodes = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, index=uvk)
 
         gdf_nodes.index = gdf_nodes.index.rename("osmid")
         utils.log("Created nodes GeoDataFrame from graph")
 
     if edges:
         if not G.edges:  # pragma: no cover
-            msg = "graph contains no edges"
+            msg = "Graph contains no edges"
             raise ValueError(msg)
 
         u, v, k, data = zip(*G.edges(keys=True, data=True))
@@ -70,15 +70,15 @@ def graph_to_gdfs(G, nodes=True, edges=True, node_geometry=True, fill_edge_geome
             x_lookup = nx.get_node_attributes(G, "x")
             y_lookup = nx.get_node_attributes(G, "y")
 
-            def _make_geom(u, v, data, x=x_lookup, y=y_lookup):
+            def _make_edge_geometry(u, v, data, x=x_lookup, y=y_lookup):
                 if "geometry" in data:
                     return data["geometry"]
 
                 # otherwise
                 return LineString((Point((x[u], y[u])), Point((x[v], y[v]))))
 
-            geom = map(_make_geom, u, v, data)
-            gdf_edges = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, crs=crs, geometry=list(geom))
+            edge_geoms = map(_make_edge_geometry, u, v, data)
+            gdf_edges = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data, crs=crs, geometry=list(edge_geoms))
 
         else:
             gdf_edges = gpd.GeoDataFrame(data)