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name: conversion-and-io description: "Convert Earth Engine JavaScript, Python, notebooks, exports, and geospatial data formats with geemap." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: MIT

conversion-and-io

Use this sub-skill when the task is about moving code or data with geemap: Earth Engine JavaScript/Python/notebook conversion, local vector/raster format conversion, Earth Engine image/vector/video exports, NumPy/xarray extraction, COG/STAC/titiler tile URLs, OSM wrappers, or data-catalog search.

First choices

1. For JavaScript/Python/notebook conversion, read references/workflows.md and use the bundled scripts/convert_ee_js.py when a file/folder conversion is requested.
2. For export planning, read references/workflows.md and use scripts/export_task_checklist.py before launching Drive/Asset/Cloud Storage tasks or large local downloads.
3. For file formats, CRS requirements, selectors, and optional dependencies, read references/data-formats.md.
4. For API names and signatures, read references/api-reference.md.
5. For Earth Engine authentication, project setup, and package installation, use the root installation-and-auth reference.
6. For failures, missing extras, or stalled tasks, read references/troubleshooting.md.

Boundary and routing

Stay here for:

• geemap.conversion: js_to_python, js_snippet_to_py, js_to_python_dir, py_to_ipynb, py_to_ipynb_dir, execute_notebook, get_js_examples, get_nb_template.
• geemap.common / geemap.coreutils: ee_export_image, ee_export_image_collection, ee_export_vector, export-to-Drive/Asset/Cloud Storage helpers, ee_to_numpy, ee_to_xarray, csv_to_geojson, csv_to_shp, shp_to_ee, ee_to_geojson, zonal_stats, cog_tile, stac_tile, and coreutils.geojson_to_ee.
• Optional OSM downloads through geemap.osm when osmnx/geopandas and network access are available.
• Data catalog search helpers such as geemap.search_ee_data and geemap.datasets.DATA when the user needs Earth Engine asset IDs.

Route elsewhere for:

• displaying converted layers on a map: interactive-earth-engine-maps
• charts, legends, cartoee, Plotly/pydeck visual rendering: visualization-and-charts
• timelapse construction and GIF/MP4 post-processing: timelapse-and-apps
• Random Forest / classifier string conversion: machine-learning-and-ai

Safety model

• Local conversion rewrites files or notebooks and usually does not contact Earth Engine unless notebooks are executed.
• Local EE downloads (ee_export_image, ee_export_vector, zonal_stats, ee_to_numpy) contact Earth Engine immediately and require initialization, network access, and a bounded region/scale.
• Batch exports (*_to_drive, *_to_asset, *_to_cloud_storage) start asynchronous Earth Engine tasks; task completion is delayed and must be monitored outside Python.
• COG/STAC/OSM/data catalog helpers usually contact third-party HTTP services and may need proxy handling.
• Optional extras (geopandas, osmnx, geedim, localtileserver, xee, gdown, ffmpeg, ipynb-py-convert) should be called out before use.