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- {viewinline-0.2.0 → viewinline-0.2.2}/LICENSE +1 -1
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- viewinline-0.2.2/README.md +210 -0
- {viewinline-0.2.0 → viewinline-0.2.2}/pyproject.toml +7 -2
- {viewinline-0.2.0 → viewinline-0.2.2}/src/viewinline/viewinline.py +445 -211
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- {viewinline-0.2.0 → viewinline-0.2.2}/.github/FUNDING.yml +0 -0
- {viewinline-0.2.0 → viewinline-0.2.2}/.gitignore +0 -0
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Name: viewinline
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Version: 0.2.2
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Summary: Quick look geospatial viewer for iTerm2 compatible terminals
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Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/nkeikon/viewinline
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Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/nkeikon/viewinline
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Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/nkeikon/viewinline/issues
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Author: Keiko Nomura
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License: Apache-2.0
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License-File: LICENSE
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Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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# viewinline
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[](https://pepy.tech/project/viewinline)
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[](https://pypi.org/project/viewinline/)
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**Quick-look geospatial viewer for compatible terminals.**
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Displays rasters, vectors, and tabular data directly in the terminal with no GUI and no temporary files.
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<p align="center">
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<a href="viewinline_gif1.gif"><img src="viewinline_gif1.gif" width="49%"></a>
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<a href="viewinline_gif2.gif"><img src="viewinline_gif2.gif" width="49%"></a>
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</p>
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Think of it as `ls` for geospatial files — designed for quick visual inspection at the command line, not a replacement for QGIS, ArcGIS, or analytical workflows.
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Particularly useful on HPC systems and remote servers accessed via SSH. Images render on your local terminal without X11 forwarding, VNC, or file downloads.
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This tool combines the core display logic of `viewtif` and `viewgeom`, but is **non-interactive**: you can't zoom, pan, or switch colormaps on the fly. Instead, you control everything through command-line options (e.g. --display, --color-by, --colormap).
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It uses the iTerm2 inline image protocol (OSC 1337) to render previews. In incompatible terminals, the escape codes are silently ignored with no errors or crashes.
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## Installation
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Requires Python 3.9 or later.
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```bash
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pip install viewinline
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```
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## Usage
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```bash
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# Rasters
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viewinline path/to/file.tif
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viewinline R.tif G.tif B.tif # RGB composite (also works with --rgbfiles)
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viewinline path/to/multiband.tif --rgb 3 2 1
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viewinline path/to/folder --gallery 4x3 # show image gallery (e.g. 4x3 grid)
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# NetCDF and HDF
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viewinline file.nc # list variables
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viewinline file.nc --subset 2 # display variable 2
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viewinline file.nc --subset 1 --band 10 # variable 1, timestep 10 --band or --timestep
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viewinline temp.nc --subset 1 --colormap plasma --vmin 273 --vmax 310
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viewinline path/to/vector.geojson
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viewinline boundaries.geoparquet --color-by population --colormap viridis
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# CSV and Parquet
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viewinline data.csv # preview rows and columns
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viewinline data.parquet --describe # summary statistics
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viewinline data.csv --hist # histograms for all numeric columns
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viewinline data.csv --hist area_km2 # histogram for one column
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viewinline data.csv --scatter X Y # scatter plot
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viewinline data.csv --where "year > 2010" # filter rows
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viewinline data.csv --sort population --desc # sort rows
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viewinline data.csv --sql "SELECT * FROM data WHERE area > 100 ORDER BY year" # full SQL
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viewinline counties.shp --table # view shapefile as table
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viewinline counties.shp --table --describe # summary statistics
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viewinline counties.shp --table --unique STATE_NAME
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viewinline data.geoparquet --table --where "POP > 100000" --sort POP --desc
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## Compatible terminals
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- **Rio**, **Contour** (cross-platform)
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**SSH/HPC usage:** Works over SSH when connecting from a compatible terminal. Images render on your local machine, not the remote server. No X11 forwarding or VNC required.
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**tmux/screen:** Inline images don't work inside tmux or screen sessions, even with `allow-passthrough on`. Use a plain terminal tab.
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**Fallback:** In terminals that do not support inline images, you can fallback to ASCII art by installing [`chafa`](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/) command-line tool. Install `chafa` with your package manager (e.g. `brew install chafa` or `sudo apt install chafa`). You can also force the use of `chafa` by setting the environment variable `INLINE_VIEWER_ENGINE=chafa`.
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## Features
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- Previews rasters, vectors, and tabular data directly in the terminal
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- **NetCDF/HDF Support:** Display variables from NetCDF (.nc) and HDF5 (.h5, .hdf5) files with automatic nodata detection and multi-slice navigation
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- **Parquet/GeoParquet:** Render GeoParquet as vector maps or view as tabular data
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- **Tabular View for Vectors:** Use `--table` to access CSV-style operations (filter, sort, describe, hist) on any vector file
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- You can pass three rasters (e.g. `R.tif G.tif B.tif`) or use `--rgbfiles R.tif G.tif B.tif` to create an RGB composite
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- Preview file summary (rows, columns, and names)
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- Filter rows with `--where`, sort with `--sort`, limit output with `--limit`
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- Full SQL queries with `--sql` (DuckDB required) — use `data` as the table name
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- Use `--table` flag to view any vector file (shapefiles, GeoPackage, GeoParquet) as tabular data
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- Enables all CSV-style operations: `--describe`, `--hist`, `--scatter`, `--unique`, `--where`, `--sort`
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--display DISPLAY Resize only the displayed image (0.5=smaller, 2=bigger). Default: auto-fit to terminal.
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## Need help?
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NASA staff can ask questions about usage via the documentation-based assistant 'viewtif + viewgeom + viewinline Helper' via the ChatGSFC Agent Marketplace.
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## License
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This project is released under the Apache License 2.0 © 2026 Keiko Nomura.
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If you find this tool useful, please consider supporting or acknowledging it in your work.
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## Useful links
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- [YouTube demo playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9MNCMgJIHj6FvahJ6Tembp1rCyhLtR4)
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- [Demo at the initial release](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/keiko-nomura-0231891_just-released-viewinline-for-those-using-activity-7390643680770023424-8Guu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAA0INsBVIO1f6nS_NkKqFh4Na1ZpoYo2fc)
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- [Demo for the v0.1.3](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/keiko-nomura-0231891_just-released-viewinline-v013-for-iterm2-activity-7391633864798081025-dPbk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAA0INsBVIO1f6nS_NkKqFh4Na1ZpoYo2fc)
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- [Demo with GDAL](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/keiko-nomura-0231891_if-you-use-gdal-heres-a-quick-example-workflow-activity-7390892270847373312-XWZ4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAA0INsBVIO1f6nS_NkKqFh4Na1ZpoYo2fc)
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- [User feedback (thank you!)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jamshidsodikov_shout-out-to-keiko-nomura-for-viewinline-activity-7390979602539528192-S8JQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAA0INsBVIO1f6nS_NkKqFh4Na1ZpoYo2fc)
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# viewinline
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**Quick-look geospatial viewer for compatible terminals.**
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