OpenStreetMap.org and Python

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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
  1. What is OpenStreepMap.org (OSM)?
  2. How to get real time tiles rendering with mapnik and mod python?
  3. PythonOsmApi.
  4. PyrouteLib.
  5. Pyrender.
  6. GeoCoding and reverse GeoCoding.
  7. 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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