Issues with using py-eddy-tracker in Python #124
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Hello,
I am a student at Hunter College and I wanted to use PyEddyTracker to identify eddies in the Caribbean Sea, specifically for my thesis work. I received help from a MA in Geo-informatics, but several issues arose that we thought were worth bringing to your attention.
We tried to import the PyEddyTracker package into Visual Studio using Python version 3.9. It kept giving an error when importing the dependencies, particularly with Polygon3. We tried downloading Polygon3 on its own, but then there were still other issues. We even tried using older Python versions (Python 3.4) and that did not work either. In the end, we downloaded the entire repository from GitHub and started hosting it on our own GitHub repository so that we could add our own data and then use Binder notebook to use the PyEddyTracker products. This worked, but using binder is slow and Binder also did not give us full access to some of the products because you can't make changes to the code directly on Binder, just run the code. We also were not able to write files through Binder, so we could not build the cyclonic/anticyclonic data sets. If we were able to do it through Python directly, we would have truly been able to use all of the products in PyEddyTracker, which why we suggest updating your code to be more current. It's an amazing product and we really hope to be able to work with it more fully in the future!