I wrote a new article on Python and geospatial data in french on the ' Portail Sig' in the category Open Source
http://www.portailsig.org/content/python-visualiser-en-temps-quasi-reel-les-images-satellites-et-les-shapefiles-modis-ou-les-d (view and process MODIS data (raster and shapefiles) or USGC data with matplotlib and basemap) based on the wonderful work of Christian S. Perone http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/?p=86 http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/?p=1013 and his module available on Pypi : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyearthquake/0.5
