GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-03-11

A monthly gathering of the GeoJupyter core community. Open to all!

GeoJupyter core community meeting 2025-03-11

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Attendees

Your name / GitHub ID / affiliation

• Arjun Verma / @arjxn-py / QuantStack
• Martin Renou / @martinRenou / QuantStack
• Matt Fisher / @mfisher87 / DSE
• Nicolas Brichet / @brichet / QuantStack
• Greg Mooney / @gjmooney / QuantStack
• Brookie / @brookisme / DSE

Action items

• Brookie: Create issue on unit conversion in buffer feature
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Standing items

• 🗨️ Team communication
  • 🎉 What is working well?
    • Virtual hackathons 🚀
  • 🔧 Opportunities for improvement. Be nitpicky!
• 💪 Distributing power in the community
  • “Welcome committee”

Follow-up from previous meeting(s)

• Matt is behind on his action items :) Still intending to reach out about creating a space in Jupyter Discourse.
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New agenda items

• 💻 Virtual hackathons: continue to be successful at bringing in new community members and focusing energy.
  • 🛠️ Big topic of discussion right now: Reproducible processing toolbox!
• 🤑 Looking for funding opportunities! What are you aware of?
  • NSF GEO OSE Track 2, due November. High effort.
• 🔧 Processing toolbox
  • Export to shapefile?
    • http://switchfromshapefile.org/
    • Brookie: Shapefiles ubiquitous. It might be a mistake not to support them!
    • We could deprioritize shapefiles?
    • Could point to an online converter tool until we support shapefile export
  • POC has been merged https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/pull/510 🎉
  • Support other units: User enters e.g. meters, convert to degrees, pass to GDAL in native projection units.
    • Spatialite supports unit conversion, but doesn’t seem to be geospatially aware: https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-sql-5.1.0.html#length_cvt
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62514871/how-to-change-buffer-size-from-degrees-to-distance-by-meters-in-postgis
• Layer export: https://github.com/geojupyter/jupytergis/pull/528
  • Warn users when converting vector data to raster (lossy). Hover-over ⚠️ icon?
  • Move format-changing operation into processing toolbox and only support exporting vector as vector and raster as raster?

Pushed to next meeting

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