Changelog

v0.4

• 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

v0.5

• 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