Alexander Schaaf

I guess I'll give this another bump - would be a really awesome feature to have available!

I think that's a great idea and long overdue! But what are these "conventional" formats? I think scope will be really important here. It might be worth looking what's already...

@Leguark I have writing rights to the repository, so pull requests could always go via me. otherwise I can of course ask Matt to add you or others

added class `gp.utils.input_manipulation.VanMisesFisher` in my development branch with method `.rvs(size=n)` for sampling to mimic `scipy.stats` distributions (for my ABC stuff). this will not work with pymc though

I've tagged the PR as a WIP as long as this is being worked on. Let me know when / if you need review! 🤙

Wouldn't using the `aspect` keyword of `plt.imshow` do the trick? for the sections at least

As a first test I've simplified the `.travis.yml` as follows on branch `fix_506`: ```yml language: python branches: only: - fix_506 python: - '3.7' # probably should test all common py3...

Ah, missed the `gdal` in the massive conda command 😄 thanks. So we should see if there's any way to install `gdal` without conda, otherwise we'd again require a conda...

Well I have no idea how to install `gdal` automatically without conda - it certainly always crashes using `pip` on my machine, and manually downloading and installing unofficial wheels (https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal)...

> > > actually I forgot @alex-schaaf that I already have a wip pr for removing gdal #525, I think any remaining issues with it would be trivial to fix...