geometric_features.GeometricFeatures

class geometric_features.GeometricFeatures(cacheLocation=None, remoteBranchOrTag=None)

An object for keeping track of where geometric features are cached and downloading missing features as needed.

Variables:

• allFeaturesAndTags (dict of dict) – A cache of all the feature names and tags in the geometric_features repo used to determine which features need to be downloaded into the local cache

• remoteBranch (str, optional) – The branch or tag from the geometric_features repo to download from if files are missing from the local cache

__init__(cacheLocation=None, remoteBranchOrTag=None)

The constructor for the GeometricFeatures object

Parameters:

• cacheLocation (str, optional) – The location of the local geometric features cache. If not specified, the environment variable $GEOMETRIC_DATA_DIR is used if it is set and ./geometric_data is used otherwise.

• remoteBranchOrTag (str, optional) – The branch or tag from the geometric_features repo to download from if files are missing from the local cache, with default to a tag the same as this version of geometric_features

Methods

__init__([cacheLocation, remoteBranchOrTag])	The constructor for the GeometricFeatures object
read(componentName, objectType[, ...])	Read one or more features from the cached collection of geometric features.
split(fc[, destinationDir])	Split a feature collection into individual files for each feature.