Changelog

0.4 | 2019-12-05

• spatialist.auxil.gdalwarp(): optional progressbar via new argument pbar

• spatialist.raster.Raster

  • enabled reading data in zip and tar.gz archives

  • bbox()

    • renamed parameter format to driver

    • new parameter source to get coordinates from the image of the GCPs

• spatialist.raster.stack()

  • improved parallelization

  • new parameter pbar to make use of the new gdalwarp() functionality

• bug fixes

0.5 | 2020-04-21

• compatibility of SpatiaLite tools with Windows10

• compatibility with GDAL 3

• new function spatialist.ancillary.parallel_apply_along_axis(): like numpy.apply_along_axis() but using multiple threads

• new function spatialist.auxil.cmap_mpl2gdal(): convert matplotlib color sequences to GDAL color tables

• spatialist.raster.Raster

  • method write(): new argument cmap to write color maps to a file; can be created with e.g. cmap_mpl2gdal()

  • subsetting: option to use map coordinates instead of just pixel coordinates

  • method array():

    • automatically reduce dimensionality of returned arrays using numpy.squeeze()

    • cast arrays to float32 if the native data type does not support numpy.nan for masking missing data

  • option to read image data in all .tar* archives, not just tar.gz

  • new methods coord_map2img() and coord_img2map() to convert between pixel/image and map coordinates of a dataset

• spatialist.vector.Vector

  • better representation of the object’s geometry type(s) with new method geomTypes() and additional info when printing the object with print()

• spatialist.explorer.RasterViewer

  • optionally pass custom functions to create additional plots using argument custom

0.6 | 2020-07-17

• method spatialist.raster.Raster.write()

  • optionally update an existing file with new arg update

  • partial writing with new args xoff and yoff

  • write external arrays with new arg array

• new function spatialist.raster.png()

• new function spatialist.raster.apply_along_time()

• bug fixes

0.7 | 2021-06-30

• spatialist.raster.Raster: option to subset objects by

  • band names

  • time range

• spatialist.auxil.crsConvert(): raise a RuntimeError if no corresponding EPSG code was found

• module spatialist.explorer and associated demo data and notebook have been outsourced to https://github.com/johntruckenbrodt/spatialist_explorer

0.8 | 2021-09-07

• spatialist.raster.Raster:

  • method write()

    • removed argument compress_tif

    • added arguments options and overviews

  • subsetting support for time stamps, color tables and nodata

  • option to convert band names to time stamps by passing a function as argument timestamps

  • bug fixes

• spatialist.envi: enabled reading of HDR files in ZIP archives

0.8.1 | 2021-10-05

• spatialist.auxil.crsConvert():

  • use https for opengis links

  • apply ESPG validity checks when output format is opengis (not just when epsg)

• spatialist.ancillary.finder():

  • raise RuntimeError (not TypeError) if target is a file but is neither zip nor tar

  • raise RuntimeError (not TypeError) if target is a string but is neither directory nor file

0.9.0 | 2022-01-25

• spatialist.raster.Raster:

  • method write():

    • remove unused argument compress_tif

    • add support for COG driver

• spatialist.vector.Vector:

  • method addlayer():

    • enable all SRS type options supported by crsConvert()

• spatialist.raster.rasterize(): allow value None for argument nodata

• new functions:

  • spatialist.vector.vectorize()

  • spatialist.vector.boundary()

0.10.0 | 2022-02-24

• spatialist.raster.Raster:

  • method write():

    • TIFF tag writing via argument options (formats ‘GTiff’ and ‘COG’)

    • new argument overview_resampling

    • changed default format to ‘GTiff’

  • improved mechanism for temporary VRT file writing:

    • old: written to tempfile.gettempdir() and never deleted

    • new: written to subdirectory ‘spatialist’ of gettempdir() and deleted during close()

• spatialist.raster.png(): new arguments ‘vmin’ and ‘vmax’

0.10.1 | 2022-03-02

• spatialist.vector.boundary() bug fix

0.11.0 | 2022-06-01

• spatialist.auxil.crsConvert(): new argument wkt_format

• spatialist.raster.Raster.bbox(): set default of argument ‘driver’ to None

• spatialist.ancillary.sampler(): new function

• bug fixes

0.12.0 | 2022-12-21

• replace argument options with general keyword arguments kwargs in functions

  • spatialist.auxil.gdalwarp()

  • spatialist.auxil.gdalbuildvrt()

  • spatialist.auxil.gdal_translate()

  • spatialist.auxil.ogr2ogr()

  • spatialist.auxil.gdal_rasterize()

0.12.1 | 2023-11-16

• installation via pyproject.toml instead of setup.py

• spatialist.ancillary.finder(): support for zipfiles with implicit directories

0.13.0 | 2024-04-11

• add progress bar to spatialist.ancillary.multicore() (non-Windows only)