Iris <-> GeoPandas interface?

Open
#6,047 11 comments 2 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
pandas, python
Domain
data

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the existing Iris ↔ pandas interface and GeoPandas’s data model, then clarify whether a direct interface is in scope and which translations it must support before defining what completion means.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

✨ Feature Request

Build interface for translating between Iris cubes and GeoPandas dataframes.

Motivation

GeoPandas is quickly becoming a key package for working with geospatial data in python.

We have a Iris <-> pandas interface, but should this be extended to GeoPandas?

In principal we could do Iris <-> pandas <-> GeoPandas... but we could also make this more user-friendly.

Is this within scope of what Iris should do? Thoughts?

Dominant language
Python
Stars
724
Forks
317
Avg merge
3d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from SciTools/iris

All issues in SciTools/iris

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.