On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I've just joined the list, and wondered where I should start. > > I've got about 20,000 street addresses. I'd like to plot various > subsets of them on static maps of the US. > > After reading around a bit, it seems like the standard way to do this is > to (1) set up a local clone of geocoder.us, to translate the addresses > to lat/long, (2) generate map images using either mapscript (or > shapely?), and put the markers for my addresses in as a layer, or just > draw them on top. > > It's #2 that I'm still a bit confused about. Can someone point me to > some good tutorials on this? > > Bill
Hi Bill, "Where to start?" is an interesting question. Anymore, I'd say StackOverflow is the place to start. There's a GIS Stack Exchange, but it's much less useful, IMO. This list is just about discussing the development and use of owslib, rtree, shapely, and friends, and some related Zope and Plone packages. On your #2: Shapely is only concerned with computational geometry, it doesn't make map images. Mapscript is an archaic and complicated way to make maps, I recommend instead that you write your geocoded positions to some standard format and then try a bunch of different applications: Mapnik, MapBox, MapServer's shp2img program. Cheers, -- Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
