Creating Bench Bot Map Files

Introduction

This document will go over using google sheets and a python script to generate a map excel file for the bench bot

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.9 installed

   1. Instructions can be found here How to Install Python on Windows 11

2. A copy of credentials.json from @Mikah Pinegar

Steps

1. Clone GitHub - precision-sustainable-ag/benchbot-map-generator

   1. cd <path to where you want repo>

   2. git clone https://github.com/precision-sustainable-ag/benchbot_map_generator

2. Create virtual environment using python 3.9

   1. cd benchbot_map_generator

   2. make sure your python version is 3.9.x using python --version

      1. if your versions is not 3.9.x, install python 3.9

   3. python -m pip install --user virtualenv

   4. python -m venv .venv

3. Activate virtual environment

   1. ./.venv/Scripts/activate

4. Install modules

   1. pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Ask @Mikah Pinegar for the credentials.json file and copy it into the top level directory

6. Run the generate_map.py file and insert the google sheets IDs that are found in the URL in the browser

   1. For example, if the sheets URL for species_by_row is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ABCDEFG/edit#gid=0 the ID is ABCDEFG

   2. python ./generate_map.py '<species_by_row_google_sheets_id>' '<pictures_per_species_sheets_id>'

   3. The command with inserted IDs should look like this except with your keys

      python .\generate_map.py 'ABCDEFG' 'HIJKLMN'

7. Login to your google account using the OAuth popup in your browser

8. Look at the map.xlsx file that was generated and make sure it looks correct