Hi, 2009/10/13 Nicolas <[email protected]>
> I am looking for a good cross-platform open format for trajectory > data, e.g. from GPS and video tracking tools. I would like to have > good C/C++ support for computationally expensive operations, and > python support for exploration and visualization. I have been looking > at GIS-type software, light databases like sqlite, and scientific data > formats like netcdf, without finding a clear winner. Do you have any > recommendation? > I don't really know what you mean by GPS and video tracking tools, but have you consiered spatialite (rather than sqlite)? You can import EXIF GPS tags <http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/> If you have loads and loads of data in a simple format, hdf5 is very fast and versatile: <http://www.pytables.org/> Both have easy access from python, and "not too bad" access from C? Jose
