WEEK 03: JUNE 11 - JUNE 17
GRASS GIS Locations from Public Data [1]
Zechariah Krautwurst
ACCOMPLISHED
- Worked through different methods of importing and processing NED data with GDAL’s vsizip/vsicurl, TNM API, python requests lib, urllib2
- Wrote DRAFT version of r.in.usgsned python script that downloads 1/3 arc-sec NED tiles from the USGS TNM API based on GRASS computational region
- Updated git repo
NEXT WEEK
- Continue working on r.in.usgsned module script
- Develop GUI and GRASS integration
- Finish basic script functionality to import, patch downloaded tiles
- Get feedback on script functionality, formatting, and implementation
CHALLENGES
- Thinking through broader implementations of this module
- What are the most useful and stable data repositories to access?
- How to address initial problem of coordinate projections and accuracy across multiple SRSs’
[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2017/GRASSGISLocationsfromPublicData