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The City Energy Analyst (CEA)
https://www.cityenergyanalyst.com/
MIT License
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It's best we relax the formality requirement for user-defined input data for import #3632

Closed ShiZhongming closed 2 weeks ago

ShiZhongming commented 4 months ago

Currently, when importing zone.shp/typology.dbf, users need to follow precisely the CEA format for the attribute table.

It is admitted that the headers being case-sensitive can be very frustrating. For example, floors_ag (all lower case), Name (partially lower case), and 1ST_USE (all upper case). It is almost impossible to make these all correct in one go.

I do not think we can/need to change these. However, CEA can be more tolerant when importing. For example, CEA can take either Name or NAME, or name while internally modified it to Name.

ShiZhongming commented 2 weeks ago

I believe this is achieved with CEA4. Hence, closing it.