geolinks

Utilities to deal with geospatial links. Working implementation of the Cat-Interop work at https://github.com/OSGeo/Cat-Interop

Installation

geolinks is best installed and used within a Python virtualenv.

Requirements

• Python 3 and above
• Python virtualenv package

Dependencies

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt. Dependencies are automatically installed during geolinks's installation.

Installing the Package

from source:

python3 -m venv my-env
cd my-env
. bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/geopython/geolinks.git
cd geolinks
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

via pip:

pip install geolinks

Running

geolinks link sniff 'http://host/wms?service=WMS'

Using the API from Python

>>> from geolinks import sniff_link
>>> sniff_link('http://host/wms?service=WMS')
'OGC:WMS'
>>> sniff_link('http://host/wms?service=WPS')
'OGC:WPS'
>>> sniff_link('http://host/wms?service=CSW')
'OGC:CSW'
>>> sniff_link('http://host/data/roads.kmz')
'OGC:KML'
>>> sniff_link('http://host/data/roads.kml')
'OGC:KML'

Running Tests

# via setuptools
python setup.py test
# manually
cd tests
python run_tests.py

Development

Setting up a Development Environment

Same as installing a package. Use a virtualenv. Also install developer requirements:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Releasing

vi geolinks/__init__.py
git commit -m 'update release version' geolinks/__init__.py
vi debian/changelog  # add changelog entry and summary of updates
# push changes
git push origin master
git tag -a x.y.z -m 'tagging release x.y.z'
# push tag
git push --tags
rm -fr build dist *.egg-info
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*

Code Conventions

• PEP8

Bugs and Issues

All bugs, enhancements and issues are managed on GitHub.

Contact

• Tom Kralidis