My recent work on creating a more flexible circular cartogram algorithm meant that I needed (well, wanted) to load shapefiles into a Python application. After many searches and scouring of message boards, I settled on the OGR/GDAL libraries. And 3 hours later I had it installed on my MacBook…
I’m sure that OGR (vector) [...]
Below is linked a little teaser from my recent experimentation with loading shapefiles.
indiemaps.com/shapefile
In the above, the work of loading the shapefiles is mostly done by the Vanrijkom classes I spoke of earlier. When I wrote before, I was more interested in loading shapefiles with PHP, and using Flash Remoting to pass in the shapefile [...]
I’ve recently become interested in loading shapefiles into Flash applications. Doing so opens up many possibilities.
Cartograms
Projections
Flash-based GIS
Perhaps best of all, it may mean that, for simple mapping tasks, I could do without ArcGIS altogether. I could load a shapefile into my Flash application, project it into one of dozens of projections, zoom into [...]