Pydriosm

(*19 November 2020*)

This release introduces a highly modified version of the predecessors tagged "1.0.x". Note that this new version is not compatible with any previous versions.

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.20...2.0.0) since [1.0.20](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.20/):**

- Featured with the following three new modules:
- [**downloader**](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/941e9f5b45a0a356eba5a0281307f19807955357/pydriosm/downloader.py), modified from the former [download_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/371dbce63886cf22f8484337ed5ced826acfcf05/pydriosm/download_GeoFabrik.py) and [download_BBBike](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/371dbce63886cf22f8484337ed5ced826acfcf05/pydriosm/download_BBBike.py), for downloading data;
- [**reader**](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/941e9f5b45a0a356eba5a0281307f19807955357/pydriosm/reader.py), modified from the former [read_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/371dbce63886cf22f8484337ed5ced826acfcf05/pydriosm/read_GeoFabrik.py), for reading the data;
- [**ios**](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/941e9f5b45a0a356eba5a0281307f19807955357/pydriosm/ios.py), modified from the former [osm_psql](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/371dbce63886cf22f8484337ed5ced826acfcf05/pydriosm/osm_psql.py) and [dump_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/371dbce63886cf22f8484337ed5ced826acfcf05/pydriosm/dump_GeoFabrik.py), for PostgreSQL-based I/O and storage of the data.
- Renamed the rest of the modules, fixed known bugs and added a number of new functions/classes.

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(*27 January 2020*)

*Note that [1.0.19](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.19/) had been removed from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/releases).*

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.18...1.0.20) since [1.0.18](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.18/):**

- Removed the function [split_list()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/e3399e8ac602332aa15ddcfb23cece572906d7f4#diff-262651b10b835e2d78c1c6d4157b36f97721b7a10a13f197715ee984266c3882L111-L120) from the module [utils](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/e3399e8ac602332aa15ddcfb23cece572906d7f4/pydriosm/utils.py).
- Improved the following class and functions with bug fixes:
- [OSM](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/68f1edfd77ab8a9cc78cccf5197b245edf91dd19) in the module [osm_psql](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/68f1edfd77ab8a9cc78cccf5197b245edf91dd19/pydriosm/osm_psql.py);
- [regulate_input_subregion_name()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/57511fdc6948b9eb86eb07b99f4b15e1f8161dc9) in [download_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/57511fdc6948b9eb86eb07b99f4b15e1f8161dc9/pydriosm/download_GeoFabrik.py);
- [read_pbf()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/a3384eea4a628a7b2e75b19d5e9976e7172ece99#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL512-R602) and [read_pbf()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/a3384eea4a628a7b2e75b19d5e9976e7172ece99#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL607-R695) in the module [read_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/a3384eea4a628a7b2e75b19d5e9976e7172ece99/pydriosm/read_GeoFabrik.py);
- [psql_osm_pbf_data_extracts()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/f6b0ef15bde37dd9dc65864003cb36c49b671aec) in [dump_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/f6b0ef15bde37dd9dc65864003cb36c49b671aec/pydriosm/dump_GeoFabrik.py).

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(*9 January 2020*)

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.17...1.0.18) since [1.0.17](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.17/):**

- Integrated the function [collect_bbbike_subregion_download_catalogue()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/92df65fdde05b554b732222942796eb9292e0677#diff-1adc77ee4baedd4f5bf14bb36545835023a25c9f5df660bb5fa33b1082c33688L94) into [collect_bbbike_download_catalogue()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/92df65fdde05b554b732222942796eb9292e0677) in the module [download_BBBike](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/92df65fdde05b554b732222942796eb9292e0677/pydriosm/download_BBBike.py).
- Modified the module [download_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/af47dfb667a721be97ec9ae5eac0000b4571876b#diff-a2d854a6efc7bb0057ad30f933a3cd9ac250a85d4ab74181644827157659939e), allowing it to download data of a deep or shallow set of subregions.
- Improved the following functions with bug fixes:
- [get_subregion_table()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/d3b559f4b14b768eb657d471357ba621b14356a1#diff-a2d854a6efc7bb0057ad30f933a3cd9ac250a85d4ab74181644827157659939eL59-R119) in the module [download_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/d3b559f4b14b768eb657d471357ba621b14356a1/pydriosm/download_GeoFabrik.py)
- [find_osm_shp_file()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/a2627d8ec1e816f5d349dd9ff272f29a1faa7f2e#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL24-R58), [merge_multi_shp()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/a2627d8ec1e816f5d349dd9ff272f29a1faa7f2e#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL139-R246) and [read_pbf()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/b33b6296ede78ebff0af4753007cc3e22b691835#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL511-R603) in the module [read_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/b33b6296ede78ebff0af4753007cc3e22b691835/pydriosm/read_GeoFabrik.py)
- Added a new module [update](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/2f96a487e2fce263772853b5a50fe7037d443697).
- Added default parameters for PostgreSQL database connection.

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(*29 November 2019*)

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.16...1.0.17) since [1.0.16](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.16/):**

- Improved the following functions with bug fixes:
- [collect_subregion_info_catalogue()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/8c39e6be675f163221009b4e6c66c4db904c3ccf#diff-a2d854a6efc7bb0057ad30f933a3cd9ac250a85d4ab74181644827157659939eL126-R209) and [get_default_pathname()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/8c39e6be675f163221009b4e6c66c4db904c3ccf#diff-a2d854a6efc7bb0057ad30f933a3cd9ac250a85d4ab74181644827157659939eL455-R511) in the module [download_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/8c39e6be675f163221009b4e6c66c4db904c3ccf/pydriosm/download_GeoFabrik.py);
- [merge_multi_shp()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/94d075441dfa6ace22eec6c7c24217a2fcc2343b#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL140-R218), [read_shp_zip()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/94d075441dfa6ace22eec6c7c24217a2fcc2343b#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL252-R359) and [read_pbf()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/94d075441dfa6ace22eec6c7c24217a2fcc2343b#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL559-R661) in the module [read_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/94d075441dfa6ace22eec6c7c24217a2fcc2343b/pydriosm/read_GeoFabrik.py).

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(*6 October 2019*)

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.15...1.0.16) since [1.0.15](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.15/):**

- Fixed some known bugs.

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(*29 August 2019*)

*Note that [1.0.14](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.14/), [1.0.13](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.13/) and [1.0.12](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.12/) had been removed from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/releases).*

**Notable [changes](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/compare/1.0.11...1.0.15) since [1.0.11](https://pypi.org/project/pydriosm/1.0.11/):**

- Improved the functions: [extract_shp_zip()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/758bcbd4dc48a03b1bb72c161ba8e87f04a80a82#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL74-R114), [read_shp()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/758bcbd4dc48a03b1bb72c161ba8e87f04a80a82#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL168-R214) and [read_shp_zip()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/758bcbd4dc48a03b1bb72c161ba8e87f04a80a82#diff-c8b9e0cb8aea477d560c1f28ff9d49c58879751c45aea29eb89176cecb41ac0cL193-R296) with bug fixes in the module [read_GeoFabrik](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/blob/758bcbd4dc48a03b1bb72c161ba8e87f04a80a82/pydriosm/read_GeoFabrik.py).
- Added a new method [OSM.db_exists()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/73ff3b2bee1d85947d86bf32421e90dcabb7d47d#diff-cb2783bddce6ef6c0d7479f7e4ada08bdcec39cb0e9d0af83a4d1398b5737491R72-R76), allowing [OSM.create_db()](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/73ff3b2bee1d85947d86bf32421e90dcabb7d47d#diff-cb2783bddce6ef6c0d7479f7e4ada08bdcec39cb0e9d0af83a4d1398b5737491L72-R96) to check whether a database exists.
- Updated the [LICENSE](https://github.com/mikeqfu/pydriosm/commit/90d12a5aaa36882115e89e5e9f7672b9058f7cda).

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