On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Eric Lemoine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, April 29, 2010, Ivan Willig <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi list, >> I have been looking for an easy to use open source analytical library for >> processing GIS data. I thought I would ask here first. I often work with >> data and want a clean high level data api for doing spatial analysis. I am >> looking for something similar ArcPy but not in the ESRI world. Correct if I >> am wrong, but projects like Shapely are focused on processing and analyzing >> geometries. On the other hand projects like Ogr/Gdal allow me to create and >> manipulate Shapefiles and PostGIS tables but lack analytical capabilities. >> Same thing with geoscript <http://geoscript.org/>. >> >> For example, I would like to buffer the features of a shapefile and save the >> results of another shapfile. Something like >> >> from something import ops >> ops.buffer(“input_shapfile.shp”, “output_shapefile”,10) > > Have you looked at WordMill [*]? WordMill integreates with Shapely so > you should be able to easily achieve what you want with > WorldMill+Shapely. But I'm not sure about the status of WorldMill, > Sean may want to comment about that. (FWIW I'm not sure WorldMill can > easilly be installed on non-Unix platforms). > > Cheers, > > [*] <http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/WorldMill> >
Except that WorldMill is currently read-only. It's a demonstration of a cleaner interface to OGR, and I'm not certain about its future. -- Sean
