[SoC] [SOC] Week 03 Report: GRASS Locations from Public Data

[Zechariah Krautwurst]

WEEK 03: JUNE 11 - JUNE 17
GRASS GIS Locations from Public Data [1]
Zechariah Krautwurst

ACCOMPLISHED
- Worked through different methods of importing and processing NED data
with GDAL's vsizip/vsicurl, TNM API, python requests lib, urllib2
- Wrote DRAFT version of r.in.usgsned python script that downloads 1/3
arc-sec NED tiles from the USGS TNM API based on GRASS computational region
- Updated git repo

NEXT WEEK
- Continue working on r.in.usgsned module script
- Develop GUI and GRASS integration
- Finish basic script functionality to import, patch downloaded tiles
- Get feedback on script functionality, formatting, and implementation

CHALLENGES
- Thinking through broader implementations of this module
- What are the most useful and stable data repositories to access?
- How to address initial problem of coordinate projections and accuracy
across multiple SRSs'

[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2017/
GRASSGISLocationsfromPublicData
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