Version 0.16.0

Datashader 0.16.0 is a significant release adding support for rendering GeoPandas GeoDataFrames directly rather than having to convert them to SpatialPandas first. Support for GeoPandas geometry types in Datashader Canvas functions is as follows:

• Canvas.line: LineString, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, Polygon
• Canvas.point: MultiPoint, Point
• Canvas.polygons: MultiPolygon, Polygon

There is also support in Canvas.line for a new data type which is a 2D xarray.DataArray (within an xarray.Dataset) containing the coordinates of multiple lines that share the same x coordinates.

The DataShape package is now vendored in Datashader as it has not been maintained for a number of years and is not accepting updates.

Thanks to new contributor @J08nY and regular contributors @Hoxbro and @ianthomas23.

Enhancements:

• Support rendering of GeoPandas GeoDataFrames as lines, points and polygons (#1285, #1293, #1297)
• Implement lines using 2D xarray with common x coordinates (#1282)

General code improvements:

• Add debug logging to compiler module (#1280)
• Vendor DataShape (#1284)
• Don't use object as base class (#1286)
• Fix typos using codespell (#1288)
• Fix float16 being a floating type. (#1290)
• Simplify line _internal_build_extend (#1294)

Improvements to CI:

• Update to latest holoviz_tasks (#1281)
• Update codecov configuration (#1292)
• Add pre-commit (#1295, #1296)

Compatibility:

• Support Pandas 2.1 (#1276, #1287)
• Replace np.NaN with np.nan (#1289)
• Drop support for Python 3.8 (#1291)