gis-tools 0.17.8
Some geographical tools for Python developers
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3

# GisTools
Some geographical tools for python developers

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## Introduction
GisTools is a small Python library for performing geographical computations. Typically, it gathers different tools from well-known libraries such as gdal, rasterio, geopandas, fiona and shapely.
It allows easily mixing operations between vectors and raster maps (multi-band raster are not supported at the moment).

## Basic operations
GisTools allows some of the following operations:
- [x] Fast polygon intersection and split
- [x] Polygon partition based on graph theory (requires [METIS](http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/download) package)
- [x] Basic networking (shortest path)
- [x] Download DEM from online databases
- [x] Download layers from postgis spatial database
- [x] Extract raster statistics with respect to vector layers (polygon/line)
- [x] Raster to/from polygons conversion 
- [x] Compute horizon obstruction from DEM


## Requirements
See ``requirements.txt``.

### Note on GDAL
Installing GDAL through `pip` might be tricky as it only gets
the bindings, so be sure the library is already installed on 
your machine, and that the headers are located in the right
folder. Another solution may to install it through a third-party
distribution such as `conda`.


## Install
Pip installation should normally take care of everything for you.

### Using PIP

The easiest way to install GisTools is using ``pip`` in a terminal
```
$ pip install gis-tools
```


## Examples

### Example 1

Use ``DigitalElevationModel``, ``PolygonLayer`` and ``ZonalStatistics`` classes to retrieve average slope within each polygon of a shapefile
```
>>> dem = gistools.raster.DigitalElevationModel("path/to/dem.tif")
>>> slope = dem.compute_slope()
>>> layer = gistools.layer.PolygonLayer("path/to/layer.shp")
>>> zonal_stat = gistools.stats.ZonalStatistics(slope, layer, is_surface_weighted=False, all_touched=True)
>>> average = zonal_stat.mean()
```

### Example 2

Extract polygons from contour values in raster
```
>>> from gistools.raster import RasterMap
>>> raster = RasterMap("path/to/raster.tif", no_data_value=-9999)
>>> layer = raster.contour(0.04, False).polygonize("attribute name").to_crs(epsg=4326)
```

### Example 3: download and build DEM tile

Build DEM tile by downloading from CGIAR website and save to file
```
>>> from gistools import DigitalElevationModel
>>> dem = DigitalElevationModel.from_cgiar_online_database((8, 38, 14, 42))
>>> dem.to_file("path/to/dem.tif")
```

### Example 4: partition a polygon

Split a polygon layer into sub-polygons of equal area with respect to 
honeycomb mesh (requires [METIS](http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/download) package)
```
>>> polygon_layer = gistools.layer.PolygonLayer("path/to/layer.geojson")
>>> new_partitioned_layer = polygon_layer.partition(threshold=2000, disaggregation_factor=20, 
                                                    split_method="hexana", contig=True)
```

### Note on OSM

You can use the fine `osmnx` package to download OSM features and then
 use it as any other `GeoLayer` :
```python
from gistools.layer import PolygonLayer
import osmnx as ox
country = PolygonLayer.from_gpd(ox.geocode_to_gdf(
    dict(country="France",
         admin_level=2,
         type="boundary")))
```