v0.17.0

Release Notes

New Features

• Add support for the National Levee Dataset (NLD) from the USACE. The new class is called NLD and gives users the ability to subset the NLD dataset by geometry, ID, or SQL queries. The class has three methods: bygeom, byids, and bysql.

Enhancements

• Add a new argument to EHydro for passing a directory to store the raw downloaded data. This is useful since most times the raw data is needed for further processing and reuse. So, by storing them in a folder other than its previous default location, i.e., ./cache, users can easily access and manage them.

Internal Changes

• Add the exceptions module to the high-level API to declutter the main module. In the future, all exceptions will be raised from this module and not from the main module. For now, the exceptions are raised from both modules for backward compatibility.
• Switch to using the src layout instead of the flat layout for the package structure. This is to make the package more maintainable and to avoid any potential conflicts with other packages.
• Add artifact attestations to the release workflow.
• Move NID class to the nid module to make the package more organized and the main module less cluttered.