Archana Maheshwari wrote: > tell me about the applications of python programming in mapping field.
Python is now the primary scripting language for ESRI products: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0405/files/python.pdf Python wraps GDAL: http://www.gdal.org/gdal_tutorial.html and OGR: http://ogr.maptools.org/ Generic Mapping Tools is wrapped by Python: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/jeffrey.s.whitaker/python/gmt/gmt-src/doc/html/public/gmt.gmt-module.html Python is a scripting language for MapServer: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PythonMapScript The Python Cartographic Library: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki forms the basis of PrimaGIS: http://primagis.fi/ which are both collected by the GIS Python community: http://www.gispython.org/ GRASS, the main open source GIS analysis product, is scripted in Python: http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_Python Basically, Python is the GIS scripting language of choice. If you google on "python +gis", there are over a million hits. Any mapping tool worth paying attention to has a Python API. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
