added warning if automatic nodata value detection returns unreliable value; bugfix for overwriting user defined attributes of GeoArray

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray:
    - added quiet mode
    - added attribute _gdalDataset_meta_already_set
    - added print output if nodata value had to be detected automatically
    - set_gdalDataset_meta(): added docstring; method is now only called from __init__

numeric.array:
- revised find_noDataVal()

- added new package similarity

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

geo.raster
- __init__.py: added __all__
- added module conversion containing new function raster2polygon for polygonizing raster arrays

io.raster:
- gdal:
    - get_GDAL_ds_inmem(): gt and prj are now optional keywords
- GeoArray:
    - added function _alias_property()
    - GeoArray:
        - added attribute basename
        - __init__(): added FileNotFoundError for Python 3
        - added 'nodata' property that return nodata value
        - refactored cols attribute to 'columns'
        - added alias attributes 'cols', 'gt', 'prj'
        - added 'mask_nodata' property that returns a no data mask (uint8)
        - added 'footprint_poly' property that returns a shapely polygon with the corresponding footprint
        - added nodata value derival to set_gdalDataset_meta()
        - save(): added automatic creation of output directory
        - _get_plottable_image(): now respects nodata value
        - show(): now respects nodata value
        - show_map(): now respects nodata value
        - added show_footprint() function that shows a zoomable map containing the footprint polygon as overlay (Jupyter Notebook internal)

io.temp_io => refactored to 'pathgen':
- added function get_generic_outpath()

numeric.array:
- added function find_noDataVal() to derive nodata value from a given numpy array

ptds.__init__:
- updated __version__

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.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

geo.coord_trafo:
- added functions lonlat_to_pixel(), reproject_shapelyPoly()

geo.projection:
- added function get_prjLonLat()

io.raster.GeoArray:
- GeoArray.get_mapPos(): bugfix for returning the wrong target pixel size
- get_array_at_mapPos():  bugfix for returning the wrong target pixel size

- 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()