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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PySpatialist(PythonPackage):
+    """This package offers functionalities for user-friendly geo data
+    processing using GDAL and OGR."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/johntruckenbrodt/spatialist"
+    url      = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/s/spatialist/spatialist-0.2.8.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.2.8', sha256='97de7f9c0fbf28497ef28970bdf8093a152e691a783e7edad22998cb235154c6')
+
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-progressbar2', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pathos@0.2.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-numpy', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-matplotlib', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-jupyter-core', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-ipython', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-ipywidgets', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-tblib', type=('build', 'run'))