[OSGeoLive] Proposal to officially add OWSLib to OSGeoLive

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Thank you Seth,

Big +1 from me.

Best,
Angelos

On 5/25/25 12:58, Seth G via osgeolive wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose officially adding the OWSLib Python library as a project to OSGeoLive. OWSLib is already installed on OSGeoLive and is an OSGeo Community Project.
> A project overview and quickstart are available in a PR at: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/893
> Below hopefully covers all the questions outlined at https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply
> I am happy to act as the project liaison.
>
> Summary
> --------------
>
> Name: OWSLib
> Description: OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service interface standards, and their related content models.
> OGC Standards: Client supporting many OGC standards https://owslib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html#standards-support
> Homepage: https://owslib.readthedocs.io/
> PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/OWSLib/
> Authors: Sean Gillies, Tom Kralidis, and the OWSLib team
> Licence: BSD 3-Clause License - https://owslib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html
> Language: Python
> Version: 0.33.0 (already installed).
> OpenHub: https://openhub.net/p/OWSLib
> Download stats: https://pypistats.org/packages/owslib and https://pepy.tech/projects/owslib
> Size: owslib-0.33.0-py3-none-any.whl (240.1 kB)
> Contributors: https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/graphs/contributors and https://openhub.net/p/OWSLib/contributors/summary
>
> In terms of stability, OWSLib has been developed continually since 2007. It is a cornerstone of the geospatial Python ecosystem, and is included in software such as QGIS. In the last month it has been downloaded 150,128 times, and in total 4.93 million times. It has a test suite, with coverage of 60% - https://coveralls.io/builds/73820767.
> OWSLib has featured in several FOSS4G conferences, and in workshops such as "Doing Geospatial in Python": https://geopython.github.io/geopython-workshop/
>
> It does not have a user interface, but Jupyter notebooks have been added to allow interaction using a UI. See PRs: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/34, https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/35, and https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-Notebooks/pull/36.
>
> Installation
> ----------------
>
> OWSLib is installed already as part of the base_python.sh script using apt-get install: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/base_python.sh#L40.
> It is packaged as part of UbuntuGIS: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable/+packages?field.name_filter=owslib
>
> Let me know if there are any further details required,
>
> Seth Girvin and the OWSLib team.
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