geoid issue-19

README.md

@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ The ice-road-copter suite is designed to post-process point cloud data and enabl
 
 ##  Setting things up! :hammer:
 ### Downloading ASP precompiled binaries
-1. Download latest stable build (Linux or OSx): https://github.com/NeoGeographyToolkit/StereoPipeline/releases and unzip the folder into the ice-road-copters directory. There are different builds for each OS, but you may have to dig a little to find the OSx build, it gets updated less.
-2. Rename this folder as `ASP` and remove the zipped file
+- Download latest stable build (Linux or OSx): https://github.com/NeoGeographyToolkit/StereoPipeline/releases and unzip file onto your machine. There are different builds for each OS, but you may have to dig a little to find the OSx build, it gets updated less.
 
 
-## Setting up Conda environment 
+### Setting up Conda environment 
 
 ```
 $ conda env create -f iceroad_env.yaml

scripts/geoid_tool.py

@@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ def transform_raster(in_dir, epsg, asp_dir, transform_command, log ):
             asp_dir = join(asp_dir, 'bin')
     else:
         asp_dir = abspath(join('ASP', 'bin'))
+    # check ASP install exists
+    if not exists(asp_dir):
+        raise Exception(f'The following is not the correct path to ASP: {asp_dir}')
 
     # setup our directory structure
     geoid_dir = join(dirname(in_dir), 'geoid')

scripts/ice-road-pipeline.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from cmath import exp
 from docopt import docopt
 from glob import glob
-from os.path import abspath, join, basename, isdir
+from os.path import abspath, join, basename, isdir, exists
 from laz_align import laz_align
 import rioxarray as rio
 from rasterio.crs import CRS
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
             asp_dir = join(asp_dir, 'bin')
     else:
         asp_dir = abspath(join('ASP', 'bin'))
+    # check ASP install exists
+    if not exists(asp_dir):
+        raise Exception(f'The following is not the correct path to ASP: {asp_dir}')
     shp_fp = args.get('-s')
     if shp_fp:
         shp_fp = abspath(shp_fp)