On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Eric Lemoine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > (sorry if it's not the proper forum for this discussion, but I know > there may interested people listening here :-)
We are all part of the gispython "community", aren't we ;) > > I'd like that MapFish rely on GeoAlchemy, to share code and development. > > For this, we need that GeoAlchemy reads database geometry values as > objects implementing the __geo_interface__. > > The easiest would be to make GeoAlchemy create Shapely geometry > objects. But I don't think it'd be a good idea to make GeoAlchemy > depend on Shapely, because Shapely isn't a pure-Python lib. > > So I've been thinking about adding the boolean option "shape" to > GeoAlchemy's TypeEngine (GeometryBase). If this option is true > GeoAlchemy will create a Shapely geometry object using > shapely.wrk.loads() and will add as a property to the > PersistentSpatialElement object. > > What do you think? > That would be great. Is it possible to implement this as a separate package? That would ease up dependency management. regards Sanjiv > Thanks, > -- > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
