opengeos / open-buildings

Tools for working with open building datasets
https://opengeos.github.io/open-buildings
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Refactor overture stuff to be more generic #14

Open cholmes opened 10 months ago

cholmes commented 10 months ago

The main overture commands could likely be done fairly generic for any large geospatial file. It'd be great to evolve them to at least be 'tools', and perhaps even be their own package that 'open_buildings' would call / depend on. The overall flow of how the data is formatted is:

A more generic version of this would likely take input from more than parquet files (or at least have a command to convert to parquet files). And it would not be tied to the 'buildings' name.

cholmes commented 9 months ago

Note that the google versions of the overture scripts are likely 95% of the way there to being completely generic. They use the centroid of the geometry instead of relying on the bbox struct. The main thing to do is probably not use 'buildings' as the table name.

Making this completely generic likely warrants putting it in a new repo.