On 8 3 , 9 34 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.htmlhttp://www.ollivier.co.nz/publication/uc2004/python_workshop/sld008.htmhttp://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
Mike, Thanks for your suggestion. I am looking for a python GIS package (without any other GIS backends like mapserver) which can be simply imported into my current python web application. I am not sure if it is available. So far, the close one I found is Python Cartographic Lab. But I can not find any examples for PCL. Anyway, I am still on the way of the deep learning curve for GIS. Ouyang Ouyang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
