Rasterio

The GDAL library we introduced earlier in this chapter is extremely powerful, but it wasn’t designed for Python. The rasterio library solves that problem by wrapping GDAL in a very simple, clean Pythonic API for raster data operations.

This example uses the satellite image from the GDAL example in this chapter. We’ll open the image and get some metadata as follows:

import rasterio
ds = rasterio.open("SatImage.tif")
ds.name 'SatImage.tif'
ds.count 3
ds.width 2592
ds.height 2693

Next up, we’ll examine a powerful library that works with the crowd-sourced Open Street Map data and can even do routing.