[Numpy-discussion] scan array to extract min-max values (with if condition)

[Massimo Di Stefano]

Hello All,

i need to extract data from an array, that are inside a 
rectangle area defined as :

N, S, E, W = 234560.94503118, 234482.56929822, 921336.53116178, 921185.3779625

the data are in a csv (comma delimited text file, with 3 columns X,Y,Z) 

#X,Y,Z
3020081.5500,769999.3100,0.0300
3020086.2000,769991.6500,0.4600
3020099.6600,769996.2700,0.9000
...
...

i read it using " numpy.loadtxt "

data :

http://www.geofemengineering.it/data/csv.txt     5,3 mb (158735 rows)

to extract data that are inside the boundy-box area (N, S, E, W) i'm using a loop
inside a function like :

import numpy as np

def getMinMaxBB(data, N, S, E, W):
	mydata = data * 0.3048006096012
	for i in range(len(mydata)):
		if mydata[i,0] < E or mydata[i,0] > W or mydata[i,1] < N or mydata[i,1] > S :
			if i == 0:
				newdata = np.array((mydata[i,0],mydata[i,1],mydata[i,2]), float)
			else :
				newdata = np.vstack((newdata,(mydata[i,0], mydata[i,1], mydata[i,2])))
	results = {}
	results['Max_Z'] = newdata.max(0)[2]
	results['Min_Z'] = newdata.min(0)[2]
	results['Num_P'] = len(newdata)
	return results
   	

N, S, E, W = 234560.94503118, 234482.56929822, 921336.53116178, 921185.3779625
data = '/Users/sasha/csv.txt'
mydata = np.loadtxt(data, comments='#', delimiter=',')
out = getMinMaxBB(mydata, N, S, E, W)

print out


This method works, but maybe is not soo fast, have you any hints on how to improve code with better performance ?

thanks!!!

Massimo.