geomesher 0.1.0
Meshing a GeoDataFrame using Gmsh.
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: geopandas,mesh,unstructured grid

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GeoMesher: Meshing a GeoDataFrame using Gmsh
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Features
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GeoMesher is a fork of `pandamesh <https://github.com/Deltares/pandamesh>`__. The original
package included two mesh generators: `Triangle <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html>`__
and `Gmsh <https://gmsh.info/>`__. This fork only includes the Gmsh mesh generator since
Triangle seems to be not maintained anymore. Also, GeoMesher adds the following new
functionalities:

* A new method for returning the generated mesh as a GeoDataFrame.
* A new function called ``gdf_mesher`` that can generate a mesh from a GeoDataFrame
  with a single function call and with sane defaults for the mesh generator.
* Remap a scalar field from the source GeoDataFrame to the generated mesh,
  using an area weighted interpolation method
  (based on `Tobler <https://github.com/pysal/tobler>`__).
* Handle ``MultiPolygon`` geometries in the source GeoDataFrame.

Note that the remapping functionality of GeoMesher is a simple areal interpolation method.
For more advanced interpolation methods, please use `Tobler <https://pysal.org/tobler/index.html>`__.

Installation
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You can install GeoMesher using ``pip``:

.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install geomesher

or using ``conda`` (``mamba``):

.. code-block:: console

    $ conda install -c conda-forge geomesher

Quick start
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The following example shows how to generate a mesh from a GeoDataFrame
using both the ``gdf_mesher`` function and the ``Mesher`` class.

We start by getting a GeoDataFrame of South America from the Natural Earth website.
Then, we reproject it to a projected coordinate system (UTM zone 20S).
Finally, we add a new column called ``cellsize`` that will be used to set the
maximum size of the mesh elements.

We use the ``gdf_mesher`` function to generate the mesh with default parameters
and use ``Mesher`` to generate the mesh with ``MESH_ADAPT`` algorithm.
We also use the ``area_interpolate`` function to remap the ``POP_EST`` column
from the source GeoDataFrame to the generated mesh.

.. code:: python

    import geopandas as gpd
    import geomesher as gm

    world = gpd.read_file(
        "https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip"
    )

    south_america = world[world["CONTINENT"] == "South America"]
    south_america = south_america.explode(ignore_index=True).to_crs(32620)
    south_america["cellsize"] = 500_000.0

    mesh_auto = gm.gdf_mesher(south_america, intensive_variables=["POP_EST"])

    mesher = gm.Mesher(south_america)
    mesher.mesh_algorithm = "MESH_ADAPT"
    mesh_adapt = mesher.generate()
    mesh_adapt = gm.area_interpolate(south_america, mesh_adapt, intensive_variables=["POP_EST"])

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Contributing
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Contributions are very welcomed. Please read
`CONTRIBUTING.rst <https://github.com/cheginit/pygeoogc/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst>`__
file for instructions.

Credits
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GeoMesher is a fork of `pandamesh <https://github.com/Deltares/pandamesh>`__ (MIT License)
and uses one of the modules in
`Tobler <https://pysal.org/tobler/index.html>`__ (BSD-3-Clause License).