swisslandstats-geopy

Spec sheet

Purpose

The package provides an extended pandas DataFrame interface for Swiss Federal Statistics Geodata (GEOSTAT).Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Audience

The project identifies researchers and developers in environmental sciences and GIS as its target audience.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The package is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3.0).Read 5 Oct 2026 · pypi.org

Clipping

It can clip dataframes by vector geometries; place-name clipping requires osmnx, and vector clipping requires geopandas.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

CSV loading

It automatically reads GEOSTAT inventory CSV files into dataframes.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Data examples

The project gives land-use and population and household statistics as example datasets.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Export

It exports dataframe columns into NumPy arrays and GeoTIFF files.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

GDAL note

The project recommends installing rasterio with conda to avoid potential GDAL issues, including support for Swiss EPSG coordinate reference systems.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Install methods

The package documentation provides conda and pip installation commands.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Known work items

The project lists missing colormaps, handling datasets without land-use or land-cover columns, and merging dataframes from multiple CSV files as TODOs.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Latest release

PyPI lists version 0.12.0, released Jan 27, 2025.Read 5 Oct 2026 · pypi.org

Maintainer

PyPI lists Martí Bosch as the author and one maintainer.Read 5 Oct 2026 · pypi.org

Mapping

It can plot information as raster maps.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Workflow

The project describes its audience as producing repeatable and reproducible workflows using SFSO geodata.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

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Where Specifiction places it

• GIS Software#37 of 647.1