Planning v0.5 release

[smmaurer]

This issue is to plan the v0.5 release of Pandana.

Previously merged PR's

These PR's have been merged subsequent to v0.4.4, and will be included in this release:

• PR #131 (fixing an installation bug)
• PR #135 (fixing a matplotlib backend bug)
• PR #134 (adding a shortest-path-length function)
• PR #136 (vectorized shortest path lengths for many OD pairs)
• PR #137 (compilation fixes for MacOS 10.15 Catalina)

Additional things to include

• [x] update documentation
• [x] add placeholder compilation settings for MacOS 11 Big Sur
• [x] fix issue #133 (reinstating alternate names for aggregation types)
• [x] drop scikit-learn requirement
• [x] make matplotlib and osmnet optional
• [x] update versioning, etc.

Anything else to include?

I believe network.plot() is pretty broken at the moment, because it relies on an old Matplotlib extension called Basemap that’s now deprecated and hard to install (see issue #110). But I think it's better to get the existing updates released right now, and put that off until later.

[lucky-verma]

Hey @smmaurer , Is there a way to not simplify the Pandana network from bbox. I mean when API is called the data is further narrowed to fewer nodes and edges.... I want the network with every node and edges, possible?

[sablanchard]

Hi @thinkersloo ! I think you are referring to the OSMnet package here: https://github.com/UDST/osmnet that generates the network. If you want to open up a issue on OSMnet with an example of a small network that is missing nodes/edges with an example of the same network that has the missing nodes/edges we can take a look at it to reproduce. Pointing out which nodes/edges are missing in the example would be helpful.

[lucky-verma]

Hi @thinkersloo ! I think you are referring to the OSMnet package here: https://github.com/UDST/osmnet that generates the network. If you want to open up a issue on OSMnet with an example of a small network that is missing nodes/edges with an example of the same network that has the missing nodes/edges we can take a look at it to reproduce. Pointing out which nodes/edges are missing in the example would be helpful.

Hi @sablanchard ,

I have already opened an issue about 2 weeks ago. It will be very grateful if you provide me some resolution.

Thanks!