whitebox-tools VS whitebox-python

Compare whitebox-tools vs whitebox-python and see what are their differences.

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whitebox-tools whitebox-python
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6.3 4.8
4 months ago 12 months ago
Rust Python
MIT License MIT License
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whitebox-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of whitebox-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-05.
  • What other tools do you use to help you do GIS?
    2 projects | /r/gis | 5 Nov 2022
    Whiteboxtools. Very fast and powerful. Works nice for hydrology and LiDAR. Good interface to Python as well.
  • What are GIS frameworks that promote the use of novel programming languages (Rust, Nim, Zig, ...)?
    3 projects | /r/gis | 3 Jun 2022
    WhiteboxTools is written in Rust (with a Python API): https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools
  • White Box Tools - So Hot Right Now
    2 projects | /r/gis | 26 May 2022
    Well..it's a white box, as opposed to Esri's black box..
    2 projects | /r/gis | 26 May 2022
  • What CLI tool will blow your mind? (written in rust)
    16 projects | /r/rust | 23 Apr 2022
    WhiteboxTools (https://www.whiteboxgeo.com/) is a CLI tool that is about 500,000 lines of Rust (https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools) and is used for geospatial analysis in all kinds of industries. Most people use one of the many front-ends for it though (e.g. the QGIS plugin), so as to avoid the CLI, but at the most basic level, it's just a CLI. (Note, I'm the author of this tool, and so a little biased.)
  • WhiteboxTools v2.1 now released
    3 projects | /r/gis | 2 Feb 2022
    We are pleased to announce the release of WhiteboxTools Open-Core v2.1 today. WhiteboxTools is an open-source platform for advanced geospatial analysis, and is used for GIS, remote sensing, lidar, hydrology, geomorphology, and many other data processing areas. This release includes new functionality and enhancements, including new tools for the calculation of various surface curvatures, multi-scale land surface parameter calculation, and the popular Geomorphons landform classification method. You may download the WhiteboxTools open-core here. Updated tool description files for the QGIS front-end, which include all of the new tools featured in this release, are available from here (see bottom of page). For more information about usage, please see the user manual.
  • ArcGIS Toolbox for WhiteboxTools v1.5.0 released w/ 468 tools for geospatial analysis
    4 projects | /r/gis | 9 Jun 2021
    whitebox-tools: https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools

whitebox-python

Posts with mentions or reviews of whitebox-python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing whitebox-tools and whitebox-python you can also consider the following projects:

BlenderGIS - Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data

opentopodata - Open alternative to the Google Elevation API!

pysheds - :earth_americas: Simple and fast watershed delineation in python.

pycrown - PyCrown - Fast raster-based individual tree segmentation for LiDAR data

nim-gdal - Nim wrapper for Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS - ArcGIS Python Toolbox for WhiteboxTools

httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)

gitoxide - An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git

whitebox - WhiteboxTools Python Frontend [Moved to: https://github.com/giswqs/whitebox-python]

felicette - Satellite imagery for dummies.

Awesome-GEE - A curated list of Google Earth Engine resources