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Decide if format compatibility should live in meridian, or in another package #3

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tomplex opened this issue Nov 21, 2018 · 0 comments
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tomplex commented Nov 21, 2018

There should be helpers available for reading different data formats into meridian, such as PostGIS, WKT, etc. Essentially all they would do is read other files / sources of data and convert each row into a GeoJSON feature.

This need is general enough that it could easily be its own library instead of part of meridian itself.

Include in meridian: pros and cons

pros

  • Users don't need to install a second package to get common functionality

cons

  • Support for PostGIS (which I think is critical) adds a dependency on psycopg2, which the average user might not care about, and requires a separate binary on Windows.

...will add more as I think of them.

@tomplex tomplex changed the title Decide if format compatability should live in meridian, or in another package Decide if format compatibility should live in meridian, or in another package Nov 21, 2018
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