For the installation of the user and development Python environment, we use Anaconda. As of now, GEOMAPI requires Python version 3.10 due to dependency restrictions (specifically due to Opend3D). Below, you find a detailed explenation to set up both the user environment and the developer environment

User environment

To use geomapi as a package, we will create a Python 3.10 environment and intall geomapi. Open a command line (cmd) and type the following command.

conda create --name geomapi_user python=3.10
conda activate geomapi_user
pip install geomapi

If you are uncomfortable with the command line, you can use the Anaconda UI directly to create the environment. There, you can also open a command line for the package install command.

Developer environment

Developers should create a similar environment.

conda create --name geomapi_dev python=3.10
conda activate geomapi_dev

Open Vscode, open a new terminal and navigate to the root of the repository. Type the following command to install the dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note that contributions are subjected to unittests. If these fail, the code will not be updated.