[PyKDE] Python based GIS application

[Gerard Vermeulen]

I have looked a little better at their web site and saw that
there is a Qt/Grass library. It may be possible to wrap this
library using sip (if the library is not too big I can help to
get you started).

Gerard

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:21:23PM -0500, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> I'm not intimately familiar with GRASS, but yes, I do know what it is. Thanks 
> for the link to that article...I will definately have to investigate GRASS 
> much closer. I was considering becoming involved in the Quantum GIS project 
> (http://qgis.sourceforge.net), but it is primarily a C++/Qt application, 
> starting from scratch, whereas GRASS is an already feature complete GIS 
> system in need of a modern, cross-platform GUI shell. This sounds much more 
> attainable than starting from scratch! Perhaps I'll announce a new PyQt 
> project in the coming weeks!
> 
> Hoping for peace for all people,
>
Yes, I also hope so.
> 
> Eron
> 
> On Thursday March 20 2003 11:44 am, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> > Do you know GRASS? See http://grass.baylor.edu/
> >
> > As far as I understand it is a set of command line programs, glued
> > together by Tcl-Tk. Maybe it does the job for you. You may consider
> > to replace the Tcl-Tk interface by PyQt.
> >
> > There is a precompiled binary for Windows, too, if you need it.
> >
> > I do not use GRASS: if one has to believe the rumors is as
> > powerful as any commercial program, and it is free (see
> > http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1815234 why the
> > US has choosen proprietary stuff instead of GRASS for the
> > renewal -- or colonolization? --  of post-Sadam Iraq).
> >
> > Gerard
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I've been looking into working on a desktop GIS application, and not
> > > being quite brave enough to learn C++, was pondering using PyQt instead.
> > > Do you think this would be feasible enough, due to the enourmous
> > > graphical processing demands necessary for geospatial imaging? Also, what
> > > is the general consensus on providing some kind of functionality in a
> > > PyQt application similar to Qt Script?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eron
> > >
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