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The first release of GeoPySpark! After being in development for the past 6
months, it is now ready for its initial release! Since nothing has been changed
or updated per se, we'll just go over the features that will be present in
0.1.0.
**geopyspark.geotrellis**
- Create a ``RasterRDD`` from GeoTiffs that are stored locally, on S3, or on
HDFS.
- Serialize Python RDDs to Scala and back.
- Perform various tiling operations such as ``tile_to_layout``, ``cut_tiles``,
and ``pyramid``.
- Stitch together a ``TiledRasterRDD`` to create one ``Raster``.
- ``rasterize`` geometries and turn them into ``RasterRDD``.
- ``reclassify`` values of Rasters in RDDs.
- Calculate ``cost_distance`` on a ``TiledRasterRDD``.
- Perform local and focal operations on ``TiledRasterRDD``.
- Read, write, and query GeoTrellis tile layers.
- Read tiles from a layer.
- Added ``PngRDD`` to make rendering to PNGs more efficient.
- Added ``RDDWrapper`` to provide more functionality to the RDD classes.
- Polygonal summary methods are now available to ``TiledRasterRDD``.
- Euclidean distance added to ``TiledRasterRDD``.
- Neighborhoods submodule added to make focal operations easier.
**geopyspark.command**
- GeoPySpark can now use a script to download the jar.
Used when installing GeoPySpark from pip.
**Documentation**
- Added docstrings to all python classes, methods, etc.
- Core-Concepts, rdd, geopycontext, and catalog.
- Ingesting and creating a tile server with a greyscale raster dataset.
- Ingesting and creating a tile server with data from Sentinel.