Posetta, the Universal Translator of Geodetic Coordinate File Formats
Posetta is a command line and GUI utility for translating between different file formats used for representing geodetic coordinates.
Note: Posetta is still in pre-alpha status. Its functionality will change, and it should not be depended on in any production-like setting.
Installing Posetta
Posetta is available at PyPI. You can install it by simply running
pip install posetta
Installing Posetta from source
Posetta depends on other brilliant Python packages, like for instance numpy. We recommend using the Anaconda distribution to ease the installation of these dependencies.
Install Anaconda
Go to www.anaconda.com/download, and download Anaconda for Python 3.
Download the Posetta source code
If you have not already done so, download the Posetta source code, from
GitHub. Then enter the main
posetta directory before running the install commands below.
cd posetta
Install dependencies
You should now install the necessary dependencies using the
environment.yml-file. You can do this either in your current conda
environment, or choose to create a new posetta-environment. In general, you
should install posetta in its own environment.
To install posetta in a new environment named posetta and activate it, do
conda env create -n posetta -f environment.yml
conda activate posetta
To instead install posetta in your current environment, do
conda env update -f environment.yml
Install the Posetta package
To do the actual installation of Posetta, use the flit packaging tool:
flit install --dep production
If you want to develop the Posetta package, install it in editable mode using
flit install -s
On Windows, you can install in editable mode using
flit install --pth-file
Using Posetta
Posetta can be used either as a command line application, or a graphical (GUI) application.