Python Geospatial Development Essentials

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Design and structure a basic GIS application based on existing tools
• Customize Tkinter application widgets to make your very own toolkit of flexible and reusable GIS widgets
• Load, manipulate, and save spatial data, both vector and raster
• Create an interactive and zoomable window for visualizing spatial data
• Manage and organize spatial data
• Create the beginnings of a comprehensive Python library for many types of geospatial tasks, and use this API as the engine behind your application
• Package your final application into a lightweight and portable executable application

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for Python programmers who are tasked with or wish to make a special-purpose GIS application. Analysts, political scientists, geographers, and GIS specialists seeking a creative platform to experiment with cutting-edge spatial analysis, but who are still only beginners in Python, will also find this book beneficial. Familiarity with Tkinter application development in Python is preferable but not mandatory.