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> -- Eric Lemoine Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 Mail : [email protected] http://www.camptocamp.com
