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A format-agnostic Python interface for geospatial data
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Add convenience methods for point data #302

Open JamesVarndell opened 4 months ago

JamesVarndell commented 4 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This idea comes from a desire to remove pain points when plotting point data with earthkit-maps. At present, one has to manually extract geospatial point information from point data (normally using pandas), even when the geospatial information about each point is clearly labelled using well-understood labels (e.g. "lat" and "lon").

Describe the solution you'd like

Starting with CSV, we should implement the to_points() method, which will look for common column titles (e.g. "lat", "latitude", "lon", "longitude" etc.) and return the points list, if found.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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ECMWF

gritk commented 2 months ago

This would be very useful for working with the C3S LOT5 Fire AF & FRP summary datasets, which are provided as a table in csv format. (https://www.wekeo.eu/data?view=dataset&dataset=EO%3AECMWF%3ADAT%3ASATELLITE_FIRE_RADIATIVE_POWER)