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🤔 What is this?

This is a Python package to help with analysis of the potential impacts of climate hazards and other perils on infrastructure networks.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install nismod-snail

This should bring all dependencies with it. If any of these cause difficulties, try using a conda environment:

conda env create -n snail_env \
    python=3.11 geopandas shapely rasterio python-igraph
conda activate snail_env
pip install nismod-snail

If all worked okay, you should be able to run python and import snail:

$ python
>>> import snail
>>> help(snail)
Help on package snail:

NAME
    snail - snail - the spatial networks impact assessment library

Using the snail command

Once installed, you can use snail directly from the command line.

Split features on a grid defined by its transform, width and height:

bash snail split \ --features input.shp \ --transform 1 0 -180 0 -1 90 \ --width 360 \ --height 180 \ --output split.gpkg

Split features on a grid defined by a GeoTIFF, optionally adding the values from each raster band to each split feature as a new attribute:

bash snail split \ --features lines.geojson \ --raster gridded_data.tif \ --attribute \ --output split_lines_with_raster_values.geojson

Split multiple vector feature files along the grids defined by multiple raster files, attributing all raster values:

bash snail process -fs features.csv -rs rasters.csv

Where at a minimum, each CSV has a column path with the path to each file.

Transform

A note on transform - these six numbers define the transform from i,j cell index (column/row) coordinates in the rectangular grid to x,y geographic coordinates, in the coordinate reference system of the input and output files. They effectively form the first two rows of a 3x3 matrix:

| x | | a b c | | i | | y | = | d e f | | j | | 1 | | 0 0 1 | | 1 |

In cases without shear or rotation, a and e define scaling or grid cell size, while c and f define the offset or grid upper-left corner:

| x_scale 0 x_offset | | 0 y_scale y_offset | | 0 0 1 |

See rasterio/affine and GDAL Raster Data Model for more documentation.

Development

Clone this repository using GitHub Desktop or on the command line:

git clone git@github.com:nismod/snail.git

Change directory into the root of the project:

cd snail

To create and activate a conda environment with snail's dependencies installed:

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate snail-dev

Run this to install the source code as a package:

pip install .

If you're working on snail itself, install it as "editable" along with test and development packages:

pip install -e .[dev]

Run tests using pytest and pytest-cov to check coverage:

pytest --cov=snail --cov-report=term-missing

Run a formatter (black) to fix code formatting:

black src/snail

When working on the tutorial notebooks, it is recommended to install and configure nbstripout so data and outputs are not committed in the notebook files:

nbstripout --install

C++ library

The C++ library in extension/src contains the core routines to find intersections of lines with raster grids.

Before working on the C++ library, fetch source code for Catch2 unit testing library (this is included as a git submodule):

git submodule update --init --recursive

Build the library and run tests:

cmake -Bbuild ./extension
cmake --build build/
./build/run_tests

Run code style auto-formatting:

clang-format -i extension/src/*.{cpp,hpp}

Run lints and checks:

clang-tidy --checks 'cppcoreguidelines-*' extension/src/*.{cpp,hpp}

This may need some includes for pybind11 - which will vary depending on your python installation. For example, with python via miniconda:

clang-tidy --checks 'cppcoreguidelines-*' extension/src/* -- \
    -I/home/username/miniconda3/include/python3.11/ \
    -I./pybind11/include/

Or with C++ headers installed on a Linux machine:

clang-tidy --checks 'cppcoreguidelines-*' extension/src/* -- \
    -std=c++14  \
    -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/c++/11 \
    -I/usr/include/c++/11 \
    -I{$PWD}/extension/extern/pybind11/include \
    -I/usr/include/python3.10

Integration of C++ and Python using pybind11

The snail.core.intersections module is built using pybind11 with scikit-build-core (see docs)

• extension/src/intersections.cpp defines the module interface using the PYBIND11_MODULE macro
• pyproject.toml defines the build requirements for snail, which includes pybind11 and scikit-build-core

Acknowledgments

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020-23 Tom Russell and all snail contributors

This library is developed by researchers in the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems at the University of Oxford, funded by multiple research projects.

This research received funding from the FCDO Climate Compatible Growth Programme. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the UK government's official policies.