v0.14.0

Release Notes

New Features

• Rewrite the GeoConnex class to provide access to new capabilities of the web service. Support for spatial queries have been added via CQL queries. For more information, check out the updated GeoConnex example notebook.
• Add a new property to StreamCat, called metrics_df that gets a dataframe of metric names and their description.
• Create a new private StreamCatValidator class to avoid polluting the public StreamCat class with private attributes and methods. Moreover, add a new alternative metric names attribute to StreamCat called alt_names for handling those metric names that do not follow METRIC+YYYY convention. This attribute is a dictionary that maps the alternative names to the actual metric names, so users can use METRIC_NAME column of metrics_df and add a year suffix from valid_years attribute of StreamCat to get the actual metric name.
• In navigate_by* functions of NLDI add stop_comid, which is another criterion for stopping the navigation in addition to distance.
• Improve UserWarning messages of NLDI and WaterData.

Breaking Changes

• Remove pynhd.geoconnex function since more functionality has been added to the GeoConnex service that existence of this function does not make sense anymore. All queries should be done via pynhd.GeoConnex class.
• Rewrite NLDI to improve code readability and significantly improving performance. Now, its methods do now return tuples if there are failed requests, instead they will be shown as a UserWarning.
• Bump the minimum required version of shapely to 2.0, and use its new API.

Internal Changes

• Sync all minor versions of HyRiver packages to 0.14.0.