On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Paolo Corti wrote: >> I'm currently looking into various mapping libraries to automatically >> generate some nice looking maps for a couple of projects. The only actively >> maintained projects that I've found for doing this sort of thing in python >> are basemap (matplotlib extension) and mapnik's python bindings. They both >> look really nice, but I want to make sure I'm not missing any others. What >> python libraries do you folks use for mapping? > > Hi > another option could be using MapServer with MapScript Python bindings [0]. > In any case I think the best implementation nowadays for Python is Mapnik. > Or, depending on the architecture, create a WMS with MapServer, > GeoServer, etc and access it via OWSLib [1] > P > > [0] http://mapserver.org/mapscript/python.html > [1] http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/OwsLib >
I'd stay far away from MapScript. Exhuming that corpse will only enable it to start eating your brains. Howard _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
