windkit.read_elevation_map

windkit.read_elevation_map(filename, crs=None, **kwargs)[source]

Read elevation map from file.

The file can be either a raster file or a vector file.

If the file is a raster file, the following formats are supported:: “grd” and “tif” (geoTIFF).
If the file is a vector file, the following formats are supported:: “gpkg”, “gml”, “map”, “tmp”, “zip”, “ZipExtFile”

Parameters:

filename (str or pathlib.Path) – Path to file
crs (int, dict, str or pyproj.crs.CRS, optional) – Value to initialize pyproj.crs.CRS (Default: read from file)
**kwargs (dict) – Additonal keyword arguments passed to reader.

Returns:

elevation_map object

Return type:

xarray.DataArray, gpd.GeoDataFrame