An Ansible playbook that downloads the 2011 National Land Cover Database and converts it to Azavea Raster Grid format

nlcd_2011_to_arg.yml

# Requires about 40GB of available disk space under /var
---
- name: Install tools
  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=present
  with_items:
    - "zip"
    - "unzip"

- name: Install Geospatial libraries
  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=present
  with_items:
    - "binutils=2.24*"
    - "libproj-dev=4.8.0*"
    - "gdal-bin=1.10.1*"
    - "libgdal1-dev=1.10.1*"

- name: Create data directory
  file: path=/var/data state=directory

- name: Download NLCD 2011
  get_url: url=http://tdds.cr.usgs.gov/landcover/NLCD2011/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10.zip
           dest=/var/data/nlcd_2011.zip
           mode=444

- name: Unzip NLCD 2011
  unarchive: src=/var/data/nlcd_2011.zip
             dest=/var/data
             creates=/var/data/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10.ige
             copy=no

- name: Convert NLCD 2011 to ARG
  command: gdal_translate -of ARG nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10.img nlcd_2011.arg
           chdir=/var/data/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10
           creates=/var/data/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10/nlcd_2011.arg

- name: Zip NLCD 2011 ARG
  command: zip nlcd_2011.zip nlcd_2011.arg nlcd_2011.json
           chdir=/var/data/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10
           creates=/var/data/nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10/nlcd_2011.zip