techmatters/soil-id-algorithm

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Indexed issues: 29
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Dominant language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 31, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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29 open issues indexed

Elevation lookup (EPQS) is flaky → US Site score non-deterministic Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#390 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
US horizon: disjoint-property depths scored 0 (match) instead of masked Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#389 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Design: a slice informed by fewer properties counts as much per cm as a fully-populated slice Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#388 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Design: color is ~50% of the US horizon match (3 channels weighted equally with 3 texture properties) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#387 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
global_soil: SettingWithCopyWarning — slice of hwsd2_data assigned without .copy() Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#386 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
soil_sim: divide-by-zero in ilr/clr when a particle fraction is 0 (simulation/confidence metric) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#385 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
US: 'no soil below' uses deepest described horizon, conflating restriction with end-of-characterization Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#384 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
US: ranking caps candidate & pit depth at 200 cm though ~16% of SSURGO components go deeper (minor) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#383 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
US: candidate texture and color profiles disagree by ~1 cm at the bottom (minor) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#382 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Shallow soils (Leptosol) display a full 120 cm profile instead of truncating at the end of soil Open

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#378 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Soil ID Algorithm UX doesn't explain why certain soils are excluded or promoted Open

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#381 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Rock fragment and texture input causes unpredictable / counter-intuitive score changes (global/HWSD) Open

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techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#377 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Soil ID Algorithm: certain shallow soils are always classified as 0% match Open

Engineering

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#375 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Soil ID: Compare user's color data to wet or dry profiles, depending on user input Open

Engineering

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#374 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Soil ID Algorithm shows 0% match for soils in soil list Open

Engineering

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#357 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Legacy: Incorrect label for east photo Open

Engineering Legacy

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#358 · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Fix soil-id-algorithm snapshot test flakiness. Open

tech-debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#332 · Opened Sep 25, 2025
bug: soilid data rank number is being improperly assigned due to a missing dataframe sorting step Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#256 · Opened Jun 10, 2025
bug: legacy soil‑depth definition does not handle custom intervals Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#251 · Opened May 20, 2025
Research: does including slope improve list_soils results? Open

Engineering

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#162 · Opened Sep 3, 2024
FutureWarning: The behavior of DataFrame concatenation with empty or all-NA entries is deprecated Open

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#125 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2024
Warning: Conversion of an array with ndim > 0 to a scalar is deprecated Open

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#124 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2024
bug: algorithm output does not indicate when it has encountered transient error conditions Open

Engineering

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#108 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 12, 2024
Add "needs soil functional variability" parameter to soil ID list Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#70 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2024
Performance improvements for SoilID Open

Engineering

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#222 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 18, 2024
DeprecationWarning: DataFrameGroupBy.apply Open

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#64 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2024
Move dynamically downloaded data files into git repository or database Open

tech-debt

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#51 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Use existing Python colour science library Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#48 · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Optimize stored data Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

techmatters/soil-id-algorithm#46 · Opened Apr 9, 2024

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