OpenStreetMap.org and Python
Authors | Rajan Vaish |
Level | Beginner |
Topic | Other Python libraries and extensions |
Tags | openstreetmap, geo, open source |
Summary
This talk is about OpenStreetMap.org (the Wikipedia of Maps) and how leveraging power of Python, applications can be developed over it. OpenStreetMap has a number of planet.osm-powered scripts, written in Python, which can be used for making applications independent of Proprietary maps' data/APIs.
Outline
- What is OpenStreepMap.org (OSM)?
- How to get real time tiles rendering with mapnik and mod python?
- PythonOsmApi.
- PyrouteLib.
- Pyrender.
- GeoCoding and reverse GeoCoding.
- Applications on OSM using Python - Pyroute and TownGuide.
Notes
Profile of the authors
Rajan Vaish is a developer at Accenture Technology Labs(R&D), Bangalore. He has been past intern at One Laptop per Child(OLPC -MIT Media Labs) in 2008 and was a Google Summer of Code student for OpenStreepMap in 2009, currently he is also serving as Google Summer of Code'10 co-admin for OpenStreetMap.org .His interests deeply lies in Open Source, Geo/GIS, Accessibility, R&D and Entrepreneurship.
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