On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 08:53 -0600, Sean Gillies wrote: > No immediate plans of my own, but I would love to hear more about your > use cases.
I don't think my uses are particularly interesting. My use and knowledge of the various python GIS libraries has grown from nothing over the last few months. I started off using mapserver's mapscript to render some custom maps from a database to an OpenLayers client via TileCache. Only afterwards did I discover PCL and its much cleaner API and then worldmill, python-GDAL etc. I did look at mapnik rather than mapserver because of its fairly decent python bindings but ended up choosing to use mapserver after it supported AGG and because a co-worker who preferred to use it. Needing to do more general GIS processing of geometries in shapefiles and raster data etc. follows naturally once you start building webapps involving maps, doing which is much nicer with things like worldmill. I imagine there are an increasing number of python developers coming to the python GIS libraries through "map" enabling webapps. The everyblock use of OpenLayers, TileCache, Mapnik and subsequent publicity and things like OSM i guess are partly driving it. Maybe when GeoDjango "finishes" they'll have a consistent set of libraries to use for most uses but your approach of smaller more focused libraries makes more sense to me. I guess this is old hat to you seasoned python GIS people and I've rambled a bit but its taken me a while to become aware of the available libraries and their development status. cheers, Graham _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
