Validate placekey-py against newest version of H3 Library

[jarredSafegraph]

Users have reported latest version of placekey-py are not working with latest versions of H3.

[eric-leap]

@jarredSafegraph Indeed. I temporarily solved this by specifying pip install h3<4.0.0 before I install placekey. But it seems like placekey should be updated to reflect the updated version of h3.

[bohrarohan]

Thanks @eric-leap
We too were able to resolve issues(short-term_solution) using your suggestion, and installing h3 v2.7.7 🚀

[jarredSafegraph]

Hey,

Sorry for the delay on this one. In taking a look at the changes to the H3 library and wanting to ensure we maintain functionality in our library, we have decided to lock on h3<4,>=3.6 for the time being. If you are working with the newest version of H3, do let me know, and I can see about making the necessary changes.

Collecting h3<4,>=3.6.1 (from placekey)
  Downloading h3-3.7.7-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (4.9 kB)

[medhatgayed]

Hi @jarredSafegraph I also am having problems getting placekey-py to work nicely with h3-py, specifically I need a version of h3-py that allows me to convert H3 cells to GeoJSON/Polygons and AFAIK this was only possible in h3-py since version 4 which is incompatible with all versions of placekey-py.

[jarredSafegraph]

@medhatgayed
That is correct for the time being. We are weighing the path forward at the moment: either splitting API and Spatial functionality from API or something to that end. Would you mind sharing more about your use case for the H3 / spatial side? If you would rather share with me directly, you can email me at jparrett@safegraph.com.