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’