This release many new features and improvements and culmination of several months of
development. The most notable changes are listed below.
Added
- Add support for subsetting remote raster datasets.
- Add support for POLARIS data which is a probabilistic remapping of SSURGO (POLARIS)
soil properties at 30-m resolution over the CONUS.
- The `Config.file_paths` attribute now includes a `FileList` object for each requested
data source. This allows for easy access to the file paths of the downloaded data.
The indices of the list of files correspond to the geometries in the AOI
GeoDataFrame.
- Add a new option called `crop` to all gridded data sources. This option allows to
disable cropping of the data to the AOI. This is useful when the user wants to get
the data for the bounding box of the AOI instead of the AOI itself, e.g., for
topography data where the data at the edges of the AOI is needed.
- Add a new option called `geometry_buffer` to all gridded data sources. This option
allows to buffer the geometry of the AOI by a given distance. This is useful when
the user wants to get the data for a larger area than the AOI itself, e.g., for
topography data where the data at the edges of the AOI is needed.
- Add a new option called `overwrite` to allow overwriting the existing data files.
Changed
- A major refactoring of the code base to improve the performance by avoiding
unnecessary web service calls and package imports.