Roadmap

[martinfleis]

The basic functionality and its tests are currently in place. We have

• a database of some vector data examples (mostly from GeoDa centre ported from the libpysal.examples module + NYBB) as a JSON file
• tooling to work with it like in xyzservices (mostly ported from there; it may eventually be worth sharing bits somehow)
• new top-level api to fetch url or local path
  • implementation of download and caching using pooch for downloads and local path handling via get_path
• tests and CI

What needs to be done:

• agree on a name and find a home (GeoPandas org or PySAL org?)
• documentation -> add documentation #3
• expand list of datasets to replace naturalearth in documentation -> Additional data #4
• possibly something like download_all or download(list) to pre-download files to a cache. -> ENH: add fetch() #2
• release

After that, I think the first version is done and can be used in GeoPandas docs instead of to-be-deprecated datasets module.

[martinfleis]

PySAL is fine hosting the package in the org but there's an agreement that it would belong to geopandas better.

[martinfleis]

I have tagged a 2023.1.0b2 release which has been shipped to PyPI. Will give it a few days to hopefully add some additional data and cut 2023.1.0 or 2023.2.0 as a proper release that will also be on conda-forge (so far I haven't created a feedstock yet as they do not favour beta releases).

[martinfleis]

Completed.