Submitting Author: Raphael Quast (@raphaelquast)
All current maintainers: @raphaelquast
Package Name: EOmaps
One-Line Description of Package: EOmaps is a python package to visualize, analyze and compare geographical datasets.
Repository Link: https://github.com/raphaelquast/EOmaps
Version submitted: 7.3
Editor: @banesullivan
Reviewer 1: @yeelauren
Reviewer 2: @jhkennedy
Archive:
Version accepted: 8.0.2
Date accepted (month/day/year): 03/14/2024
EOmaps is a python package to visualize, analyze and compare geographical datasets.
It is intended to simplify the process of geospatial data visualization and to provide a straight forward way to turn the maps into interactive widgets for data analysis.
EOmaps is based on matplotlib and cartopy and extends cartopy's capabilities with the following features
It is extensively documented, unit-tested, citable via a zenodo and installable via conda or pip.
(However using pip is discouraged since dependencies like GDAL and PYPROJ can be difficult to install, especially on windows)
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Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?
The target audience for EOmaps are scientists and researchers working with geospatial datasets.
EOmaps can be used to quilkly visualize structured (or unstructured) geo-spatial datasets, compare multiple datasets with each other or compare maps to an extensive list of open access webmap services. Since EOmaps is based on matplotlib, the created maps can also be connected to ordinary matplotlib axes to analyze multi-dimensional (e.g. timeseries) data.
In addition to the interactive capabilities, maps created with EOmaps can be exported as high-resolution images or vector-graphics to create publication-ready plots.
Finally, I believe that EOmaps also has great potential to be used in education to teach about projections, distortions, spatial resolution, rasterization of data, the subtleties of big-data visualization etc.
Are there other Python packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ?
EOmaps is based on cartopy. While cartopy provides similar functionalities in terms of data
visualization, EOmaps greatly extends these capabilities (especially for large datasets),
adds multi-layer support, a basic GUI, easy-access to webmaps, and many more features.
There exist other packages that focus on interactive geo-data visualization, but to my knowledge
none that focusses on local use in pure python.
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