On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Sanjiv Singh<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi TurboGears community, > > Summer of Code for 2009 ended today Highlights of the TG2 Geospatial > Project are: > > GeoAlchemy > ------------------ > GeoAlchemy[1] is a sqlalchemy extension for spatial databases. It > provides an ORM layer for gis data using python / wsgi software. > GeoAlchemy-0.1 was released yesterday and has been receiving some > publicity[2]. A TG2 app using geoalchemy is hosted[3] for demo. > > GeoAlchemy Datasource for FeatureServer > ------------------------------------------------------------- > FeatureServer[4] is a python GIS server for storing, manipulating and > querying gis features in a variety of data backends using Web Feature > Service. A new datasource for featureserver has been written using > GeoAlchemy. This will allow web frameworks / applications using > sqlalchemy to make use of featureserver easily. The datasource has not > yet been contributed to featureserver but it can be used by importing > from tgext.geo.featureserver. > > FeatureServer Controller for TG2 > ----------------------------------------------- > tgext.geo now has a FeatureServerController. The controller does two things > (a) processes config parameters from tg.config, and > (b) dispatches requests to featureserver using featureserver api. > A tutorial for using FS with tgext.geo and geoalchemy datasource is in > docs repo. A copy of this is in the geoalchemy docs[5] too. > > I thank my mentor Mark Ramm and the entire TG community for their > support and encouragement. > > regards > Sanjiv Singh > > [1] http://geoalchemy.org/ > [2] http://sgillies.net/blog/928/geoalchemy , > http://benjamin.chartier.free.fr/pro/?p=1469 and > http://tinyurl.com/ol37cx > [3] http://demo.geoalchemy.org/ > [4] http://featureserver.org/ > [5] http://geoalchemy.org/featureserver.html >
Great news, I'm going to take a look at this to see if I finally start that GIS project I want to get my friend into (he is a geographer and still stuck in desktop land) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
