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oturns / geosnap

The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package
https://oturns.github.io/geosnap-guide
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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functional API #309

Closed knaaptime closed 2 years ago

knaaptime commented 2 years ago

the Community class is a remnant of the earliest versions of geosnap, when we were super concerned about storage efficiency and tried to maintain a single set of geometries for several temporal sets of attributes. We moved away from that design decision for several reasons, but kept the class-based interface. Now that a Community is little more than a long-form geodataframe, the class seems like it's now providing more burden than utility (as a user its easier to work with gdfs anyway, and internally that's what we work with anyway).

so i'd like to reorient (or at least provide an alternative) function-based API that operates on long-form geodataframes instead of Community-based methods.

knaaptime commented 2 years ago

the heavy lifting i wanted done here was completed in #329, so closing here