April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Creating an API with REST specifications is easy with Python web frameworks. Flask makes it simple to coordinate the URL endpoints with request methods and response types. With built-in JSON capabilities, and with the use of the SQLAlchemy and GeoAlchemy2 ORMs, Flask is a perfect framework for creating a geospatial REST API.
In the next chapter, we will cover the use of the CARTOframes module for cloud visualization of geospatial data.