On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Michael Elsdörfer wrote: > Sean, > >> useful outside the context of a database. A nearest point algorithm >> wouldn't be all that hard to implement in Python and I'm willing to >> help you find a good home for it. Maybe in a Shapely analytic >> package > > So generally, Shapely would be the thing to use if I want to those > kinds > of calculations using Geometries in Python?
Yes. > > The PostGIS code indeed doesn't look all that complicated. Though I'm > slightly in a hurry for the particular project I need this for, so I > might just have to go with using PostgreSQL for now - not my ideal > solution, but probably quicker. > > Michael I've seen people opt to load their data into postgres for processing only, not for any enterprise data management reasons. If PostGIS has the functions, I can't see any reason why not. IMO, for functions not in PostGIS, and where data management is not a concern, development using Python would be faster and more sustainable than development using C, SQL, PL/pgSQL. -- Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
