[GRASS-dev] Week 03 Report: GRASS GIS Locations from Public Data

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