All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Add a new function called
tiffs_to_da
that converts a list of GeoTIFF files to axarray.DataArray
object. This function is useful for combining multiple GeoTIFF files thatget_map
andget_dem
produce, into a singlexarray.DataArray
object for further analysis. Note that for using this functionshapely
andrioxarray
need to be installed. The required dependencies did not change, these two are optional dependencies that are only needed for this new function.
- Use
threading.Event
instream_write
for a more robust way to signal the event loop thread to stop running. This should prevent the event loop thread from hanging when the main thread exits before the event loop thread is done running. Overall, this improves thread safety and robustness of the package. - Improve handling of errors when using
build_vrt
function by explicitly catching errors raised bygdalbuildvrt
and raising a more informative error message. This should make it easier to debug issues when creating VRT files.
- Refactor the package to run in Jupyter notebooks without using
nest-asyncio
. This is done by creating and initializing a single global event loop thread dedicated to only running the asynchronous parts of this package. As a result,nest-asyncio
is no longer needed as a dependency. - Remove the
out_crs
option fromget_map
since the 3DEP service returns inconsistent results when the output CRS is not its default value of 3857. This is a breaking change since this value cannot be configured and the default value has changed from 5070 to 3857.
- Use
aiohttp
andaiofiles
for more performant and robust handling of service calls and downloading of 3DEP map requests. This should limits the number of connections made to the dynamic 3DEP service to avoid hammering the service and can reduce the memory usage when downloading large files. As a results,aiohttp
andaiofiles
are now required dependencies andurllib3
is no longer needed. - More robust handling of closing
VRTPool
at exit by creating a new class method calledclose
. This method is called by theatexit
module to ensure that the pools are closed when the program exits.
- Considerable improvements in making service calls by creating connection pools using
urllib3.HTTPSConnectionPool
andrasterio.open
. This should improve performance and robustness of service calls, and reduce the number of connections made to both the static and dynamic 3DEP services. As a results,urllib3
is now a required dependency. - Add a new private module called
_pools
that contains the connection pools for making service calls. The pools are lazily initialized and are shared across threads. Especially the VRT pools are created only when a specific resolution is requested, and are reused for subsequent requests of the same resolution. As such, the VRT info are loaded only once per resolution without usinglru_cache
.
- Improve downloading of 3DEP map requests in
get_map
by streaming the response content to a file instead of loading it into memory. Also make exception handling more robust. The function has been refactored for better readability and maintainability. - Change the dependency of
build_vrt
fromgdal
tolibgdal-core
as it is more lightweight and does not require the fullgdal
package to be installed. - Improve documentation.
- Since 3DEP web service returns incorrect results when
out_crs
is 4326,get_map
will not accept 4326 for the time being and the default value is set to 5070. This is a breaking change. - Improve exception handling when using
ThreadPoolExecutor
to ensure that exceptions are raised in the main thread.
- Initial release.