W-06: Solid Web Mapping with Python
Python is becoming a solid development platform for the web and the geospatial domain.
One of the advantages of Python for developing GIS applications is the number of high-quality tools it counts in the geospatial domain. Examples include Shapely [1], Mapnik [2], GeoDjango [3], TileCache [4], Python bindings for OGR/GDAL [5]. This workshop presents a number of Python tools, libraries and frameworks, and shows how to use them together to create solid and efficient web-mapping applications. More specifically, the workshop covers the Shapely and GeoJSON libraries from the GIS Python Lab [6]. It shows how to use these libraries together with SQLAlchemy [7] and its GIS extension, GeoAlchemy [8], to create HTTP web services in an application developed with the Pylons web development framework [9]. The workshop then teaches how to use MapFish [10] to make the development of GIS web services easier. Finally the workshop demonstrates how to secure tile accesses by pluging TileCache in a MapFish application and making use of repoze.who [11] and repoze.what [12] for the security layer.
[1] http://gispython.org/shapely/manual.html
[2] http://mapnik.org/
[3] http://geodjango.org/
[4] http://tilecache.org/
[5] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInPython
[6] http://gispython.org/
[7] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
[8] http://geoalchemy.org/
[9] http://pylonshq.com/
[10] http://mapfish.org
[11] http://static.repoze.org/whodocs/
[12] http://what.repoze.org/docs/1.0/
presenter
É. Lemoine, B. Binet.
Camptocamp
author's bio
Éric Lemoine and Bruno Binet are senior developers at Camptocamp and specialize in open-source web-mapping with OpenLayers, GeoExt and MapFish.
workshop level
Intermediate.
attendee's previous knowledge
Programming.
