growing-cities

Based on Ruby code written by ProPublica for their Las Vegas Growth Map.

Setup

Requires Python 2.7 and GDAL.

mkvirtualenv growing-cities
pip install requests lxml cssselect invoke pyyaml rasterio scikit-image

gem install net
gem install nokogiri
gem install fileutils

# Install GDAL with Python support
brew install gdal --with-python --with-python3 --with-postgresql

# Hotlink GDAL python modules into virtualenv
echo 'import site; site.addsitedir("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages")' >> /Users/cgroskopf/.virtualenvs/growing-cities/lib/python2.7/site-packages/homebrew.pth

# Install Google Cloud utils for downloading files
pip install gsutil

# Install linux tar utility
brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names

mkdir data

python main.py tyler.yml

TODO

• Purge cloud cover
• Balance colors
• Pansharpen Landsat 8 images
• Skip nighttime images