Mapchete

Tile-based geodata processing.

Mapchete processes raster and vector geodata in digestable chunks.

Processing larger amounts of data requires chunking the input data into smaller tiles and process them one by one. Python provides a lot of useful packages to process geodata like shapely or numpy. From within your process code you will have access to the geodata in the form of NumPy arrays for raster data or GeoJSON-like feature dictionaries for vector data.

With the help of fiona and rasterio Mapchete takes care about resampling and reprojecting geodata, applying your Python code to the tiles and writing the output either into a single file or into a directory of files organized in a WMTS-like tile pyramid. Details on tiling scheme and available map projections are outlined in the tiling documentation.

(standard Web Mercator pyramid used in the web)

Usage

You need a .mapchete file for the process configuration. The configuration is based on the YAML syntax.

process: my_python_process.py  # or a Python module path: mypythonpackage.myprocess
zoom_levels:
    min: 0
    max: 12
input:
    dem: /path/to/dem.tif
    land_polygons: /path/to/polygon/file.geojson
output:
    format: PNG_hillshade
    path: /output/path
pyramid:
    grid: mercator

# process specific parameters
resampling: cubic_spline

You also need either a .py file or a Python module path where you specify the process itself.

def execute(mp, resampling="nearest"):

    # Open elevation model.
    with mp.open("dem") as src:
        # Skip tile if there is no data available or read data into a NumPy array.
        if src.is_empty(1):
            return "empty"
        else:
            dem = src.read(1, resampling=resampling)

    # Create hillshade using a built-in hillshade function.
    hillshade = mp.hillshade(dem)

    # Clip with polygons from vector file and return result.
    with mp.open("land_polygons") as land_file:
        return mp.clip(hillshade, land_file.read())

You can then interactively inspect the process output directly on a map in a browser (first, install dependencies by pip install mapchete[serve] go to localhost:5000):

$ mapchete serve hillshade.mapchete --memory

The serve tool recognizes changes in your process configuration or in the process file. If you edit one of these, just refresh the browser and inspect the changes (note: use the --memory flag to make sure to reprocess each tile and turn off browser caching).

Once you are done with editing, batch process everything using the execute tool.

$ mapchete execute hillshade.mapchete

Documentation

There are many more options such as zoom-dependent process parameters, metatiling, tile buffers or interpolating from an existing output of a higher zoom level. For deeper insights, please go to the documentation.

Mapchete is used in many preprocessing steps for the EOX Maps layers:

• Merge multiple DEMs into one global DEM.
• Create a customized relief shade for the Terrain Layer.
• Generalize landmasks & coastline from OSM for multiple zoom levels.
• Extract cloudless pixel for Sentinel-2 cloudless.

Installation

via PyPi:

$ pip install mapchete

from source:

$ git clone [email protected]:ungarj/mapchete.git && cd mapchete
$ pip install .

To make sure Rasterio and Fiona are properly built against your local GDAL installation, don't install the binaries but build them on your system:

$ pip install --upgrade rasterio fiona --no-binary :all:

To keep the core dependencies minimal if you install mapchete using pip, some features are only available if you manually install additional dependencies:

# for contour extraction:
$ pip install mapchete[contours]

# for S3 bucket reading and writing:
$ pip install mapchete[s3]

# for mapchete serve:
$ pip install mapchete[serve]

# for VRT generation:
$ pip install mapchete[vrt]

License

MIT License

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