On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean Gillies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This list is just about discussing the development and use of owslib, >> rtree, shapely, and friends, and some related Zope and Plone packages. > > Sean, thanks. On gispython.org, I see a blog post > > http://gispython.org/2009/10/unofficial-python-gis-sig-launched-2/ > > saying "Informal Python GIS SIG launched". Could you point me to > that SIG and its mailing lists (if this isn't it)?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-gis-sig Traffic there has just about ceased. Stack Overflow, I'm telling you ;) > >> 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 > > OK. What would be a good standard format to start with?' The venerable shapefile can't be beat, though more and more applications are beginning to support rendering from JSON formats. > >> and then try a bunch of different >> applications: Mapnik, MapBox, MapServer's shp2img program. > > Mapnik looks great (aside from relying on scons to build), especially > this: > > http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/XMLGettingStarted#WorldPopulationXML > > which looks like it could be adapted to my problem. > > Bill I'm dissatisfied wtih scons too, but Mapnik sure does make pretty maps. I overheard a developer talking about binaries coming soon for more platforms. Cheers, -- Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
