hdxpop

Simple tool to download High Resolution Population Density Maps from Humanitarian Data Exchange

For usage go to the medium article

Samapriya Roy. (2020, March 31). samapriya/hdxpop: hdxpop: Simple tool to download High Resolution Population Density Maps from
Humanitarian Data Exchange (Version 0.0.3). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3735435

Table of contents

• Prerequisites
• Installing hdxpop
• Using without install

Prerequisites

This assumes that you have native python & pip installed in your system, you can test this by going to the terminal (or windows command prompt) and trying. I recommend installation within virtual environment if you are worries about messing up your current environment.

python and then pip list

If you get no errors and you have python 3.2 or higher you should be good to go.

Installing hdxpop

Once you have determined you have python, you can simply install hdxpop using two methods

pip install hdxpop

For linux I found it helps to specify the pip type and use --user. Here pip refers to your default python and pip installations, assumption here is you are using python3 and up.

pip install hdxpop --user

or

pip3 install porder --user

or you can also try

git clone https://github.com/samapriya/hdxpop.git
cd hdxpop
python setup.py install

Using without install

You can do this too,by simply going downloading and unzipping the repo onto your machine and migrating to the innner hdxpop folder with the hdxpop.py file.

you can then do a

python3 hdxpop.py -h

or simply if you have Git enabled

git clone https://github.com/samapriya/hdxpop.git
cd hdxpop/hdxpop/
python hdxpop.py -h

Changelog

v0.0.4

• Changes to search URL and fuzzy search to look for overall population datasets.

v0.0.3

• Changes to search URL to include geotif, zipped only, goetiff and geotiff keyword filters.

v0.0.2

• Added installation instructions and setup