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snkit - a spatial networks toolkit

/ˈsnɪkɪt/ – sounds like snicket (noun, Northern English) A narrow passage between houses; an alleyway.

Why use snkit?

snkit helps tidy spatial network data.

Say you have some edges and nodes (lines and points, connections and vertices). None of them are quite connected, and there's no explicit data to define which node is at the end of which edge, or which edges are connected.

For example:

Unconnected network

snkit has methods to:

  • add endpoints to each edge
  • connect nodes to nearest edges
  • split edges at connecting points
  • create node and edge ids, and add from_id and to_id to each edge

Spatial network

The output of a snkit data cleaning process might look something like this:

Connected network

Nodes

geometry id other attributes...
POINT (0.03 0.04) node_0 ...
POINT (0.03 0.03) node_1 ...
POINT (0.02 0.03) node_2 ...

Edges

geometry id from_id to_id other attributes...
LINESTRING (0.04 -0.04... edge_0 node_10 node_22 ...
LINESTRING (0.01 -0.03... edge_1 node_22 node_21 ...
LINESTRING (0.02 -0.02... edge_2 node_21 node_25 ...

Getting started

Install system libraries (only tested on Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install -y libspatialindex-dev libgeos-dev gdal-bin

Or use conda to install major dependencies:

conda install geopandas rtree shapely

Install or upgrade snkit using pip:

pip install --upgrade snkit

See the demo notebook for a small demonstration.

Testimonials 💯 👍 😊

With five lines of snkit I replaced four or five hundred lines of custom code!

A. Contented Customer (@czor847)

Related projects

  • pysal/spaghetti has methods for building graph-theoretic networks and the analysis of network events.
  • osmnx lets you retrieve, model, analyze, and visualize street networks from OpenStreetMap, including methods to correct and simplify network topology.

Acknowledgements

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Tom Russell and snkit contributors

Initial snkit development was at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford within the EPSRC sponsored MISTRAL programme, as part of the Infrastructure Transition Research Consortium.

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