Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME 1.1.0 released!

Hello,

we are happy to announce the release of version 1.1 of the Geospatial Analytics Extension. One major addition of this release is the support for geocoding. In addition, this release adds support for drive time analysis via the new spatial network nodes. This release is only the starting point of this category of nodes, and we will continue to extend this functionality with future releases.

For more information on how to update to the latest version of the Geospatial Extension see the KNIME documentation.

This version works best with KNIME Analytics Platform version 4.7.3.

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New nodes

  • Spatial network nodes for drive time analysis e.g., isochrone map, drive time distance matrices​ (OSRM and Google)

  • Geocoding nodes that convert points to addresses and vice versa

  • Various other nodes such as Voronoi (Thiessen) Polygon, Bounding Circle and Extract Metadata such as CRS and geometry type

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Enhancements

  • Harmonized distance handling in various nodes that allows users to select the desired distance unit and performs projection if necessary

  • Improved result column handling that allows the user to decide to overwrite the input column with the result or append a new column

  • Support for user selected ID column in Spatial Weights nodes

  • Extended file support allows for reading online GDB and GPKG files as well as support for KML/KMLZ files

  • Spatial Join node with new options “has its center in” and “contains the center of”

  • Support for date & time columns in geospatial view nodes

  • Various node description improvements

  • Library updates of Curl, Fiona, Folium, GeoPandas, PyPROJ, PySAL, Shapely, etc.

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Bug fixes

  • Missing value and special character handling in various visualization nodes

  • DataApp compatibility of visualization nodes

  • Fix problem when executed in read-only KNIME installations

  • Fix problem when executed in offline environment

For a detailed changelog click here.