Chapter 1. Setting Up Your Geospatial Python Environment
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
- Installing pyproj and NumPy
- Installing shapely, matplotlib, and descartes
- Installing pyshp, geojson, and pandas
- Installing SciPy, PySal, and IPython
- Installing GDAL and OGR
- Installing GeoDjango and PostgreSQL with PostGIS
Introduction
This chapter will get the grunt work done for you so that you can freely and actively complete all the recipes in this book. We will start off by installing, each of the libraries you will be using, one by one. Once each step is completed, we will test each library installation to make sure it works. Since this book is directed toward those of you already working with spatial ...
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