[Tutor] Applications

[Chris Calloway]

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.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
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