Alan D. Snow

> I think returning a DataTree instead of a list of Dataset would be nice, right? Yes, that would be way better. The method pre-dates `DataTree` in xarray, but I...

> It could be worth modifying these functions in rioxarray to match and seeing that all the tests pass! Contributions welcome!

Does [CRS.get_geod](https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/stable/api/crs/crs.html#pyproj.crs.CRS.get_geod) do what you are looking for?

> Probably work mentioning/linking on https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/stable/api/geod.html I agree. This addition would be welcome.

It does look like a precision difference: ```python >>> from pyproj import pj_ellps >>> pj_ellps["WGS84"] {'a': 6378137.0, 'rf': 298.257223563, 'description': 'WGS 84'} >>> from pyproj import CRS >>> cc =...

Potentially allow for Transformer in the future: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/3622

Related: https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/issues/2787

> Ideally, the opener would be set automatically whenever fsspec is installed Not all users want this behavior as GDAL handles S3 files natively. I think the current behavior is...

I am not aware of a good way to do that as users may actually want to load the whole file into memory.

- Does the xarray pin need to be updated? - Mind adding test(s) ensuring this works as expected? - Mind adding rasterix to the latest CI tests? - Mind adding...