Revised SensorMapGeometryTransformer (now fully operable) and added corresponding tests. Added boxObj.buffer_mapXY() + test. Added type hints.

Changed warp_ndarray projection defaults. Added geo.projection.isLocal(). Added module numeric.numbers. Updated version info.

- updated __version__ and __versionalias__

- added new module 'convenience'

convenience:
- added new submodule 'object_oriented': added function alias_property from GeoArray

geo.projection:
- EPSG2Proj4(): catched case EPSG_code=None
- EPSG2WKT(): catched case EPSG_code=None
- WKT2EPSG(): catched case wkt=''

io.raster.GeoArray:
- moved GeoArray, NoDataMask, CloudMask, BadDataMask, MultiGeoArray to a new separate library called 'geoarray' and added DeprecationWarnings instead

- updated some import statements

- updated __version__

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray: added output bounds verification

io.raster.GeoArray:
- refactored _alias_property() to alias_property()
- GeoArray.reproject_to_new_grid(): bugfix for missing update of footprint_poly after reprojection

- updated __version__

- is_coord_grid_equal(): added keyword 'tolerance'; added type hint and docstring
- is_point_on_grid(): added keyword 'tolerance'; added type hint and updated docstring

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - arr.setter: removed shape assertion -> not useful in combination with image warping
- BadDataMask and NoDataMask:
    -  __init__(): added pixel value validation
    - arr.setter: moved pixel value validation to _validate_array_values()
    - added _validate_array_values()

- updated __version__

- is_coord_grid_equal(): added keyword 'tolerance'; added type hint and docstring
- is_point_on_grid(): added keyword 'tolerance'; added type hint and updated docstring

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - arr.setter: removed shape assertion -> not useful in combination with image warping
- BadDataMask and NoDataMask:
    -  __init__(): added pixel value validation
    - arr.setter: moved pixel value validation to _validate_array_values()
    - added _validate_array_values()

- updated __version__

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray(): added type hint

geo.coord_grid:
- is_point_on_grid(): fixed broken type hint

geo.coord_trafo:
- reproject_shapelyPoly():  fixed broken type hint

io.raster.GeoArrray.GeoArray:
- bandnames.getter: added assertion
- geotransform: bugfix in assertion
- revised __getitem__():
    - strings are now handled properly
    - bugfix: a requested 3rd dimension from 2D-Array is now only ignored if bands=1
- __setitem__(): self._arr_cache is now set here
- dump(): bugfix for wrong wite mode
- get_mapPos(): added type hint and revised docstring
- _clip_array_at_mapPos(): added type hint
- get_array_at_mapPos(): added type hint

- updated __version__

added new property 'mask_baddata' to GeoArray; some bugfixes and further developments; new dtypes package

- added package 'dtypes' with submodule 'conversion' for performing data tyoe conversions

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray(): input data types that are incompatible to GDAL are now automatically transformed to a GDAL compatible data type

io.raster.gdal:
- get_GDAL_ds_inmem(): added automatic data type conversion if not compatible to GDAL

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - __init__():
        - bugfix for rejecting subclasses of GeoArray
        - added attribute '_mask_baddata'
    - added property 'mask_baddata' + setter
- added class 'BadDataMask' (subclass of GeoArray)

- updated __version__

Bugfix for footprint_poly; revised progress bar handling; bugfix for not resetting timeout start time; some further developments

compatibility.python.exceptions:
- FileNotFoundError: revised docstring

compatibility.gdal:
- refactored TranslateOptions to Translate

geo.raster.conversion:
- raster2polygon(): updated calls for progress bar and timeout

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray(): updated calls for progress bar and timeout

geo.vector.topology:
- added fill_holes_within_poly()

io.raster.gdal:
- get_GDAL_ds_inmem(): implemented keyword 'nodata'

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - added many docstrings
    - projection.setter: revised assertion
    - footprint_poly(): bugfix for not consequently returning shapely.geometry.Polygon instances
    - save(): implemented keyword 'creationOptions': allows to pass creation options to GDAL writer

processing.progress_mon:
- replaced function is_timed_out() with new class 'Timer'
- replaced function printProgress() with new class 'ProgressBar'

geo.raster.reporject:
- warp_ndarray(): bugfix for error in assertion

geo.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray.calc_mask_nodata(): added docstring; bugfix for wrong array slicing

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray(): added output assertion

geo.projection:
- prj_equal(): added better docstring

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - revised mask_nodata property
    - added assertion to footprint_poly
    - revised calc_mask_nodata()
-_clip_array_at_mapPos(): bugfix for missing fillVal in case nodata value could not be derived

geo.raster.reproject
- bugfix for returning wrong geotransform (bug from previous commit)

ptds.io.raster.GeoArray.GeoArray:
- added function calc_mask_nodata()
- added function cache_array_subset()
- added setter to 'mask_nodata' property

compatibility.gdalnumeric:
- OpenNumPyArray(): Bugfix for expecting (rows,columns,bands) instead of GDAL-like (bands,rows,columns)
- edited docstring
- added datatype assertion

geo.raster.reproject:
- moved availability check for resampling algorithm 'average' here

io.raster.gdal:
- get_GDAL_ds_inmem(): added docstring
- added get_GDAL_driverList()

io.raster.GeoArray:
- save(): bugfix for writing wrong array dimensions in case of 3D array
- show(): nodataVal is now excluded from vmin/vmax calculation when showing image

processing.progress_mon:
- printProgress(): changed bar symbol due to incompatibility to csh shell output stream

- added new package 'compatibility'  that ensures that the code also works with older versions of Python and GDAL
- added __init__.py to package level

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray(): some modifications to ensure compatibility

geo.coord_trafo:
- lonlat_to_pixel(): fixed a Python 2.7 incompatibility

io.raster.gdal:
get_GDAL_ds_inmem(): some modifications to ensure compatibility

io.raster.GeoArray:
- fixed some Python 2.7 incompatibilies

io.temp_io: added new module temp_io for managing temporary files

processing.shell:
- subcall_with_output(): added verbose mode

ptds.__init__:
- added validation of GDAL version

geo.reproject:
- warp_ndarray: added warpMemoryLimit, updated defaults for warpOptions, transformerOptions

io.raster.GeoArray:
- _get_plottable_image(): bugfix for never reprojecting input image to desired projection if image size <1000x1000 px

geo.coord_trafo:
- transform_any_prj(): bugfix for wring function name -> renamed from 'c' to 'transform_any_prj'

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray:  added documentation for some keywords

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray():
    - added keywords polynomialOrder,  transformerOptions, warpOptions

geo.vector.geometry:
- boxObj:
    - added get_coordArray_MapXY(): a function to quickly get a geolocation array

geo.coord_trafo:
- transform_any_prj(): added docstring
- added transform_coordArray()
- added reproject_shapelyGeometry()
- reproject_shapelyPoly() is now deprecated

geo.projection:
- get_proj4info() now also accepts EPSG codes

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - revised default values of geotransform and projection properties
    - added some validation to geotransform.setter
    - added property epsg
    - revised __getattr__
    - added _get_plottable_image()
    - revised show(): much faster, better colormap
    - added show_map(): a function for quickly showing a map of the GeoArray
    - added show_map_utm() - not yet working

geo.raster.reproject:
- warp_ndarray:
    - implemented multiprocessing (new keyword CPUs)
    - added progress bar for GDAL translate and GDAL warp
    - added error threshold to GDAL warp
    - added custom options for GDAL warp
    - added quiet mode

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - added dummy version of method 'show_map'

processing:
- added new module progress_mon containing functions to view progress bars

geo.raster.reproject:
- moved get_GDAL_ds_inmem() to new module 'gdal'

geo.vector.geometry:
- boxObj.boxMapYX:  added docstring

geo.vector.topology:
- get_footprint_polygon(): added suppression of shapely self intersection warnings (not yet working) and implemented new keyword 'fix_invalid'

geo.coord_calc:
- calc_FullDataset_corner_positions(): added suppression of shapely self intersection warnings (not yet working)

io.raster.GeoArray:
GeoArray:
    - added property ndim
    - revised __getitem__()
    - from_path(): added docstring and support for negative slices
    - added method save()
    - added method dump()
    - show(): added xlim/ylim parameters for viewing array subsets
- added get_GeoArray_from_GDAL_ds()

new module:
- io.raster.gdal

- added a new version of warp_ndarray and renamed the old one to warp_ndarray_OLD: much faster than the old version and no issues when warping 3D arrays
- some modifications to warp_ndarray_OLD
- added get_GDAL_ds_inmem()
- added get_GeoArray_from_GDAL_ds()
- added warp_GeoArray(): a function to warp GeoArray objects

geo.vector.coord_trafo:
- added transform_GCPlist()

 geo.vector.projection:
 - WKT2EPSG() now returns an integer instead of a string

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - added whitespace assertion to __init__()
    - added properties 'rows', 'cols', 'bands', 'xgsd', 'ygsd', 'box'
    - dtype: bugfix for error when dtype is requested from in_mem-GeoArray
    - __getitem__(): bugfix for returning the wrong array subset when 'given' slice has length 1
    - show(): added interpolation and cmap keywords
    - get_mapPos(): revision
- _clip_array_at_mapPos:
    - Memory errors due to wrong target dimensions are now catched
- get_array_at_mapPos(): major revision

numeric.array:
- added get_outFillZeroSaturated()