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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setup

A number of important Python modules must be in place to ensure that the Flask application and its connection to the PostgreSQL and PostGIS database components, will run as required. These modules will be downloaded and installed using pip, which connects to the Python Package Index (PyPI), an online repository of registered modules located at https://pypi.python.org/pypi.

These modules include:

  • Flask, a pure Python MVC web framework (http://flask.pocoo.org/).
  • Flask-SQLAlchemy, a database ORM module that can connect to a multitude of database backends (http://flask-sqlalchemy.pocoo.org/2.3/). This module installs SQLAlchemy.
  • GeoAlchemy2, a Python module that builds on the SQLAlchemy module and the Postgres/PostGIS backend (covered ...
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