Bedrock

The Open Source Foundation for Geotechnical Engineering

Bedrock is an open-source Python library for reading & writing Ground Investigation data in different formats.

📖 Read / write Ground Investigation (GI) data in different formats

Ground Investigation data is often stored in specialized file formats that are not easily accessible for modern (geospatial) analysis and visualization workflows. Bedrock transforms GI data from file formats into structured data, making it accessible for a wide range of applications.

Data Format	Read	Write
AGS 3	✅	❌
AGS 4	✅	✅
Excel	✅	✅
CSV	✅	✅
JSON	✅	✅
GeoJSON	✅	✅

Do you need another format? DIGGS? NADAG? GEF? Something else? Let us know by creating an issue or starting a discussion on GitHub💭.

✅ Validate your GI data

bedrock-ge comes with data validation to make sure that you can combine Ground Investigation data from multiple files into a single GIS database with consistent relationships between GI locations, samples, in-situ measurements and lab tests.

This data validation mechanism (based on pandera) is easily extensible, giving you the power to add your own data validation criteria 💪

🗺️ Put your GI data from multiple files into a single 3D GIS database

For example, you can take GI data from 100 AGS files and combine them into a single a GeoPackage (like a Shapefile, but waaay better).

A GeoPackage can then be loaded into QGIS or ArcGIS, such that you can visualize your GI data in 3D, and perform analyses:

🟦 Put your GI data into Speckle

Once you have your GI data inside Speckle, it’s super easy to visualize GI data together with civil engineering designs:

Click here to go to the Kai Tak Speckle project from the left image

Moreover, your GI data becomes available in all the software that Speckle has connectors for.

🔓 Free and Open Source Software

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) gives you full access to the code, which means you can customize bedrock-ge to integrate with other tools and fit your workflows & project needs.

As the name implies, FOSS is free to use, so you’re not tied to expensive software licenses or locked into a specific software vendor ⛓️‍💥

You can give feedback and contribute, such that together we together can build the tools we’ve always wanted and needed 🤝

💭 Feedback

Got some feedback, a great idea, running into problems when working with Bedrock or just want to ask some questions?

Please feel free to:

1. Open an issue for feature requests or bug reports: bedrock-ge issues,
2. Start a discussion in this GitHub repo: Bedrock discussions,
3. Or start a discussion on the Speckle community forum if that’s more appropriate: Speckle community forum

All feedback and engagement with the Bedrock community is welcome 🤗

👷 Contributing

Caution

Wait, please read this too!

Contributing isn’t scary 😄

Contributing isn’t just about writing code:

• Use Bedrock and provide feedback 🪲
• Share how you use Bedrock 🏗️
• If you have a project with publicly available GI data, please share that in a discussion, such that we can create a tutorial from it.
• Help each other out, e.g. by replying to questions in the discussions or bedrock-ge issues 🤝
• Spread the word about Bedrock 🤩
• Documentation and tutorials 📃
• Most pages on the bedrock.engineer website can be edited, so if you see a spelling mistake or have a suggestion on how to explain something better, please smash that button! 🖱️💥

• If you would like to contribute code, AWESOME! 💖 Please create an issue for what you’d like to contribute. If you don’t know how to get started, please indicate this in your issue, and we’ll help you out.