A pure Python implementation of geodesy
tools for various ellipsoidal and spherical
earth models using precision trigonometric, vector-based, exact, elliptic, iterative and
approximate methods for geodetic (lat-/longitude), geocentric (ECEF cartesian) and certain
triaxial ellipsoidal
coordinates.
Transcoded from JavaScript originals
by Chris Veness (C) 2005-2024 and from several C++ classes
by Charles F.F. Karney (C) 2008-2024 and published under the same MIT License
_.
There are four modules for ellipsoidal earth models, ellipsoidalExact, -Karney, -Vincenty
and -Nvector and two for spherical ones, sphericalTrigonometry and -Nvector. Each module
provides a geodetic LatLon and a geocentric Cartesian class with methods and functions to compute
distance, surface area, perimeter, forward and reverse azimuth, initial and final bearing, intermediate
and nearest points, intersections of geodesic, great circle and rhumb lines, circle intersections and
secants, 3-point resections
, triangulation, trilateration (by intersection, by overlap and in
3d), conversions and unrolling, among other things. For more information and further details see the
documentation, the descriptions of Latitude/Longitude
, Vincenty and Vector-based
geodesy, the
original JavaScript source
or docs and Karney\'s Python geographiclib and C++ GeographicLib
_.
Also included are modules for conversions to and from Cassini-Soldner
, ECEF (Earth-Centered,
Earth-Fixed cartesian), UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator and Exact), UPS (Universal Polar
Stereographic) and Web Mercator
(Pseudo-Mercator) coordinates, MGRS (Military Grid Reference
System, UTM and UPS) and OSGR (British Ordinance Survery Grid Reference) grid references, TRF
(Terrestrial Reference Frames) and modules to encode and decode EPSG, Geohashes, Georefs (WGRS)
and Garefs (GARS)
_.
Other modules provide Albers equal-area
projections, equidistant and other azimuthal
projections, Lambert conformal conic projections and positions, functions to clip paths or
polygons of LatLon points using the Cohen-Sutherland
, Forster-Hormann-Popa
,
Greiner-Hormann
, Liang-Barsky
and Sutherland-Hodgman
methods or to perform boolean
operations between (composite) polygons, functions to simplify or linearize a path of LatLon
points (or a numpy array
), including implementations of the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker
,
Visvalingam-Whyatt
and Reumann-Witkam
algorithms and modified versions of the former. Other
classes interpolate the Height of LatLon points and Geoid models or compute various Fréchet
or Hausdorff_ distances.
To install PyGeodesy, type python[3] -m pip install PyGeodesy
or python[3] -m easy_install PyGeodesy
in a terminal or command window.
If the wheel PyGeodesy-yy.m.d-py2.py3-none-any.whl
is missing in PyPI Download files
, download
the file from GitHub/dist
. Install that with python[3] -m pip install <path-to-downloaded-wheel>
and verify with python[3] -m pygeodesy
.
Alternatively, download PyGeodesy-yy.m.d.zip
from PyPI or GitHub, unzip
the downloaded file,
cd
to directory PyGeodesy-yy.m.d
and type python[3] setup.py install
.
To run all PyGeodesy tests, type python[3] test/run.py
or type python[3] test/unitTestSuite.py
before or after installation.
Installation of Karney\'s Python package geographiclib_ is optional, but required to use modules
ellipsoidalKarney
and css
, azimuthal
classes EquidistantKarney
and GnomonicKarney
and the HeightIDWkarney
interpolator.
Both numpy and scipy must be installed for most Geoid and Height interpolators, except GeoidKarney
and the HeigthIDW...
ones.
Functions and LatLon
methods circin6
, circum3
, circum4_
, soddy4
, trilaterate3d2
and trilaterate5
do and modules auxilats
and rhumb
may require numpy_.
Modules ellipsoidalGeodSolve
and geodsolve
and azimuthal
classes EquidistantGeodSolve
and GnomonicGeodSolve
depend on Karney\'s C++ utility GeodSolve_ to be executable and set with
env variable PYGEODESY_GEODSOLVE
or with property Ellipsoid.geodsolve
.
Class Intersectool
in module geodesici
needs Karney\'s C++ utility IntersectTool_ to be
executable and set with env variable PYGEODESY_INTERSECTTOOL
.
To compare MGRS
results from modules mgrs
and testMgrs
with Karney\'s C++ utility
GeoConvert_, the latter must be executable and set with env variable PYGEODESY_GEOCONVERT
.
Module rhumbsolve
needs Karney\'s C++ utility RhumbSolve_ to be executable and set with env
variable PYGEODESY_RHUMBSOLVE
or with property Ellipsoid.rhumbsolve
.
In addition to the pygeodesy
package, the PyGeodesy distribution files
contain the tests,
the test results (on macOS only) and the complete documentation generated by Epydoc using command
line: epydoc --html --no-private --no-source --name=PyGeodesy --url=... -v pygeodesy
.
The tests ran with Python 3.13.0 (with geographiclib 2.0), 3.12.7 (with geographiclib 2.0, numpy 2.1.0, scipy 1.14.1, GeodSolve 2.3, IntersectTool 2.3 and RhumbSolve 2.3), 3.11.5 (with geographiclib 2.0, numpy 1.24.2 and scipy 1.10.1), Python 3.10.8 (with geographiclib 2.0, numpy 1.23.3, scipy 1.9.1, GeoConvert 2.3, GeodSolve 2.3), Python 3.9.6 and Python 2.7.18 (with geographiclib 1.50, numpy 1.16.6, scipy 1.2.2, GeoConvert 2.3, GeodSolve 2.3, IntersectTool 2.3 and RhumbSolve 2.3), all on macOS 14.6.1 Sonoma in 64-bit.
All tests ran with and without lazy import
for Python 3 and with command line option -W default
and env variable PYGEODESY_WARNINGS=on
for all Python versions. The results of those tests are
included in the distribution files.
Python 3.13.0, 3.12.7, 3.11.5 and 3.10.8 run on Apple M1 Silicon (arm64
), natively. Python 2.7.18
runs on Intel (x86_64
) or Intel emulation (\"arm64_x86_64
\", see function pygeodesy.machine
_).
Test coverage has been measured with coverage_ 7.6.1 using Python 3.13.0, 3.12.7, 3.11.5 and 3.10.8. The complete coverage report in HTML and a PDF summary are included in the distribution files.
The tests also ran with Python 3.13.0 (and geographiclib 2.0) on Debian 12
in 64-bit only and with
Python 3.12.5 (and geographiclib 2.0) on Windows 2019Server
in 64-bit only and with Python 2.7.18
(and with geographiclib 1.52) on Windows 10
in 64- and 32-bit.
A single-File and single-Directory application with pygeodesy
has been bundled using PyInstaller_
3.4 and 64-bit Python 3.7.4 and 3.7.3 on macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra.
Previously, the tests were run with Python 3.12.0-6, 3.11.2-4, 3.10.1-7, 3.9.1, 3.8.7, 3.7.1, 2.7.15, PyPy
7.3.12 (Python 3.10.12), 7.3.1 (Python 3.6.9) and PyPy 7.1.1 (Python 2.7.13) (and geographiclib 1.52,
numpy 1.16.3, 1.16.4, 1.16.6, 1.19.0, 1.19.4, 1.19.5 or 1.22.4 and scipy 1.2.1, 1.4.1, 1.5.2 or 1.8.1)
on Ubuntu 16.04
, with Python 3.10.0-1, 3.9.0-5, 3.8.0-6, 3.7.2-6, 3.7.0, 3.6.2-5, 3.5.3, 2.7.13-17,
2.7.10 and 2.6.9 (and numpy 1.19.0, 1.16.5, 1.16.2, 1.15.2, 1.14.0, 1.13.1, 1.8.0rc1 or 1.6.2 and scipy
1.5.0), PyPy 7.3.0 (Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.9), PyPy 6.0.0 (Python 2.7.13 and 3.5.3) and Intel-Python
3.5.3 (and numpy 1.11.3) on macOS 14.0-5 Sonoma, 13.0-5.2 Ventura, 12.1-6 Monterey, 11.0-5.2-6.1 Big
Sur (aka 10.16), 10.15.3, 10.15.5-7 Catalina, 10.14 Mojave, 10.13.6 High Sierra and 10.12 Sierra, MacOS X
10.11 El Capitan and/or MacOS X 10.10 Yosemite, with Pythonista 3.2 (with geographiclib 1.50 or 1.49 and
numpy 1.8.0) on iOS 14.4.2, 11.4.1, 12.0-3 on iPad4, iPhone6, iPhone10 and/or iPhone12, with Pythonista
3.1 on iOS 10.3.3, 11.0.3, 11.1.2 and 11.3 on iPad4, all in 64-bit only and with 32-bit Python 2.7.14 on
Windows Server 2012R2, Windows 10 Pro and 32-bit Python 2.6.6 on Windows XP SP3.
All Python source code has been statically checked with PyChecker, PyFlakes, PyCodeStyle (formerly Pep8) and McCabe using Python 2.7.18 and with Flake8 using Python 3.11.5, both in 64-bit on macOS 14.6.1 Sonoma.
For a summary of all Karney-based functionality in pygeodesy
, see module karney_.
Last updated: Oct 24, 2024.
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