This is a feature-rich Python implementation of QuadKeys, an approach to geographical tiling, popularized by Microsoft to be used for Bing Maps.

In essence, the concept is to recursively divide the flat, two-dimensional world map into squares. Each square contains four squares as children, which again contain four squares and so on, up centimeter-level precision. Each of these squares is uniquely identifiable with a string like 021030032.

For more details on the concept, please refer to the original article.

muety/pyquadkey2 originates from a fork of buckhx/QuadKey, which is not maintained anymore. It builds on top of that project and adds:

• ✅ Several (critical) bug fixes
• ✅ Python 3 support
• ✅ Type hints for all methods
• ✅ Higher test coverage
• ✅ Cython backend for improved performance
• ✅ 64-bit integer representation of QuadKeys
• ✅ Additional features and convenience methods

This library requires Python 3.10 or higher. To compile it from source, Cython is required in addition.

$ pip install pyquadkey2

Pip installation is only tested for Linux and Mac, yet. If you encounter problems with the installation on Windows, please report them as a new issue.

$ wget https://github.com/muety/pyquadkey2/releases/download/0.3.0/pyquadkey2-0.3.0.tar.gz
$ pip install pyquadkey2-0.3.0.tar.gz

• gcc
  • Fedora: dnf install @development-tools
  • Ubuntu / Debian: apt install build-essential
• python3-devel
  • Fedora: dnf install python3-devel
  • Ubuntu / Debian: apt install python3-dev
  • Others: See here

• Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (with Windows 10 SDK) (see here)

# Check out repo
$ git clone https://github.com/muety/pyquadkey2

# Create and active virtual environment (optional)
$ python -m venv ./venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

# Install depencencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# Compile
$ cd src/pyquadkey2/quadkey/tilesystem && python setup.py build_ext --inplace && cd ../../../..

# Install as module
$ pip install .

python tests/__init__.py

See here.

pip install setuptools wheel auditwheel
python setup.py bdist_wheel
cd dist
auditwheel repair *.whl
twine upload --repository testpypi wheelhouse/*

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