uniontiles.union should accept sequence of tuples or mercantile Tiles

[sgillies]

I'm looking at some code which uses supermercado and is turning lists of numbers into strings just so supermercado can decode them into numbers again.

[dnomadb]

@sgillies I agree! This "better python api" is what I was alluding to here: #30 (comment)

[dnomadb]

@sgillies looking back into this, I was reminded of what Damon-from-5-years-ago-was thinking: union optionally takes a "parsenames" option that would parse "tiley" strings:

supermercado/supermercado/uniontiles.py

Line 11 in 6ce4e22

tiles = sutils.tile_parser(inputtiles, parsenames)

. Two options:

1. We remove this altogether and point to xt or equivalent docs
2. We leave it and support strings only if parse_names is True

[sgillies]

@dnomadb I'd prefer option 1. I've done 2 for shapely and regretted it after a while. I like the example of Python's trig functions. These could all be, for example, def acos(x, is_degrees=False) but one kind of input and another method to convert inputs is the simplest to support in the long haul.