Developer Guide

cuSpatial has two main components: the cuSpatial Python package and the libcuspatial C++ library, referred to as cuspatial and libcuspatial respectively in this documentation. This page discusses the design of cuspatial. For information on libcuspatial, see the libcuspatial developer guide and C++ API reference.

• Creating a Development Environment
  • From Bare Metal
• Build and Install cuSpatial From Source
  • Pre-requisites
  • Fetch cuSpatial repository
  • Install dependencies
  • Build cuSpatial
  • Validate Installation with C++ and Python Tests
• How to Contribute to cuSpatial
  • Directory structure and file naming
  • Code style
  • Writing tests
• cuSpatial Library Design
  • Overview
  • Core Data Structures
  • Geospatial computation APIs
  • Cython Layer
• Benchmarking cuSpatial
  • Benchmark organization
  • Running benchmarks
  • Benchmark contents
  • Comparing to geopandas
  • Testing benchmarks
  • Profiling