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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 content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Flask and its component modules

Flask, as opposed to Django and GeoDjango (covered in Chapter 12, GeoDjango), does not include batteries. Instead, it allows a number of supporting modules to be installed as needed. This gives more freedom to you as the programmer, but it also makes it necessary to install the required components separately.

I've chosen some modules for this chapter that will allow us to create a Flask application with a geospatial component. The following sections will detail how to set up, install, and utilize these modules to generate a website, using a demonstration site with a PostGIS database backend (as covered in Chapter 7, Geoprocessing with Geodatabases) and the ability to perform spatial queries through a web-based ...

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