Script to fetch latest RGI, extract and process

[dshean]

Hi @matthiasdusch and @fmaussion. This is fantastic! Great work, and glad to see some of this streamlined and centralized. I have scripts/libraries to work with RGI, DEMs, and other glacier mass balance tools scattered across various repos, and it would be great to incorporate some of them here.
I'll submit separate issues on specifics. But will start with this one. I don't think you have a tool to automatically fetch the latest RGI zip - the following script should do so (can be simplified):
https://github.com/dshean/demcoreg/blob/master/demcoreg/get_rgi.sh
Might be useful to include?

[matthiasdusch]

Hi @dshean thanks for your comments and contributions!

Yes rgitools definitely lacks some tools you mentioned. So far @fmaussion and I often rely on the equivalent implementation from the OGGM glacier model. E.g. there is a implemented RGI downloader (here).

But I agree, rgitools should have these tools and they should of course be independent of the OGGM framework. Just nor sure about the bash-script. I guess we keep it python in this repo ;-)

[fmaussion]

Thanks!

rgitools should have these tools and they should of course be independent of the OGGM framework

I agree

Just nor sure about the bash-script.

I don't have strong opinions here. This is clearly in scope, so why not! We could add a /scripts folder or something.