automated detection of country and continent in FiatModel.setup_exposure and FiatModel.setup_vulnerability

[DirkEilander]

Kind of request

None

Enhancement Description

Currently, FiatModel.setup_exposure and FiatModel.setup_vulnerability require the user to provide the country and continent. However, based on the model region I believe this information could easily be deducted.

There even seems to be a method in the code ExposureVector.get_continent which should do this, but it is unused as far as I can see. For this method also two new dependencies are introduced pycountry-convert and geopy. Note that pycountry-convert has not seen updates since 2018 and has many several test package as required dependency. I wonder if geopy can also not provide the same information and make pycountry-convert redundant.

Task list

• update or create new get_continent / get_country method
• clean up related depenencies
• use this method in FiatModel.setup_exposure and FiatModel.setup_vulnerability based on model region and remove country and continent arguments

Use case

This would make it much simpler to build a fiat model for any region in an automated way.

Additional Context

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