On Aug 2, 10:46 pm, zxo102 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am new in GIS area and need your suggestions for where I can > start from. I have a python based web application with a database. > Now I would like to add a GIS map into my application. When a user > clicks a certain area in the GIS map, it can grab the data from the > database via my python based application. Do I have to use MapServer > or Grass or some other backends for this purpose? > Thanks a lot. > > Ouyang
While I am not a part of our GIS department, they use ArcGIS which has Python support built in. If that's what you're using, you should be able to use the examples given on ESRI's website: http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/tips-python-arc9.htm Hmmm...not much there. Here are some other links I found: http://nrm.salrm.uaf.edu/~dverbyla/arcgis_python/index.html http://www.ollivier.co.nz/publication/uc2004/python_workshop/sld008.htm http://www.3dartist.com/WP/python/pycode.htm I don't know if these will be much help. You really need to just dig in and start coding. I would recommend "Programming Python 3rd Ed." by Lutz if you want something in hard copy. "Dive Into Python" is a free book that's online that I'm told is very good. Both have good examples, some of which are involved. All the web oriented Python books are a few years old, but the code in them still works, for the most part. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
