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Tile-based geodata processing.
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Mapchete processes raster and vector geodata in digestable chunks.
Processing larger amounts of data requires chunking the input data into smaller tiles
and process them one by one. Python provides a lot of useful packages to process geodata
like shapely_ or numpy_. From within your process code you will have access to the geodata
in the form of NumPy
arrays for raster data or GeoJSON-like feature dictionaries for
vector data.
Internally the processing job is split into tasks which can processed in parallel using either
concurrent.futures
or build task graphs and use dask_ to intelligently process either on
the local machine or on a cluster.
With the help of fiona_ and rasterio_ Mapchete takes care about resampling and
reprojecting geodata, applying your Python code to the tiles and writing the output either
into a single file or into a directory of files organized in a WMTS_-like tile pyramid.
Details on tiling scheme and available map projections are outlined in the
tiling documentation
_.
.. _shapely: http://toblerity.org/shapely/
.. _numpy: http://www.numpy.org/
.. _dask: https://www.dask.org/
.. _fiona: https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona
.. _rasterio: https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/
.. _WMTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Tile_Service
.. _tiling documentation
: https://mapchete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tiling.html
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(standard Web Mercator pyramid used in the web)
Usage
You need a .mapchete
file for the process configuration. The configuration is based
on the YAML
syntax.
.. code-block:: yaml
process: my_python_process.py # or a Python module path: mypythonpackage.myprocess
zoom_levels:
min: 0
max: 12
input:
dem: /path/to/dem.tif
land_polygons: /path/to/polygon/file.geojson
output:
format: PNG_hillshade
path: /output/path
pyramid:
grid: mercator
# process specific parameters
resampling: cubic_spline
You also need either a .py
file or a Python module path where you specify the process
itself.
.. code-block:: python
def execute(mp, resampling="nearest"):
# Open elevation model.
with mp.open("dem") as src:
# Skip tile if there is no data available or read data into a NumPy array.
if src.is_empty(1):
return "empty"
else:
dem = src.read(1, resampling=resampling)
# Create hillshade using a built-in hillshade function.
hillshade = mp.hillshade(dem)
# Clip with polygons from vector file and return result.
with mp.open("land_polygons") as land_file:
return mp.clip(hillshade, land_file.read())
You can then interactively inspect the process output directly on a map in a
browser (first, install dependencies by pip install mapchete[serve]
go to
localhost:5000
):
.. code-block:: shell
$ mapchete serve hillshade.mapchete --memory
The serve
tool recognizes changes in your process configuration or in the
process file. If you edit one of these, just refresh the browser and inspect the
changes (note: use the --memory
flag to make sure to reprocess each tile and
turn off browser caching).
Once you are done with editing, batch process everything using the execute
tool.
.. code-block:: shell
$ mapchete execute hillshade.mapchete
Documentation
There are many more options such as zoom-dependent process parameters, metatiling, tile
buffers or interpolating from an existing output of a higher zoom level. For deeper
insights, please go to the documentation_.
.. _documentation: http://mapchete.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Mapchete is used in many preprocessing steps for the EOX Maps
_ layers:
- Merge multiple DEMs into one global DEM.
- Create a customized relief shade for the Terrain Layer.
- Generalize landmasks & coastline from OSM for multiple zoom levels.
- Extract cloudless pixel for Sentinel-2 cloudless_.
.. _cloudless: https://cloudless.eox.at/
.. _EOX Maps
: http://maps.eox.at/
Installation
via PyPi:
.. code-block:: shell
$ pip install mapchete
from source:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git clone git@github.com:ungarj/mapchete.git && cd mapchete
$ pip install .
To make sure Rasterio, Fiona and Shapely are properly built against your local GDAL and
GEOS installations, don't install the binaries but build them on your system:
.. code-block:: shell
$ pip install --upgrade rasterio fiona shapely --no-binary :all:
To keep the core dependencies minimal if you install mapchete using pip
, some features
are only available if you manually install additional dependencies:
.. code-block:: shell
# for contour extraction:
$ pip install mapchete[contours]
# for dask processing:
$ pip install mapchete[dask]
# for S3 bucket reading and writing:
$ pip install mapchete[s3]
# for mapchete serve:
$ pip install mapchete[serve]
# for VRT generation:
$ pip install mapchete[vrt]
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2015 - 2022 EOX IT Services
_
.. _EOX IT Services
: https://eox.at/