Archive for the ‘Python’ Category
Serving your map tiles 30 times faster
Recently I’ve been experimenting with TileStache tiles caching system, which is similar to TileCache and other tile caching systems in scope. TileStache revealed itself as a powerful and flexible product and was very good to cache tiles generated with my Django-backed mapscript-powered WMS server. Caching and serving tiles with TileStache was by far faster then [...]
Category: Django , GIS , Python , Sysadmin , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-17
TileStache Vector simplify provider
This is the third part of the story that I started with part 1: Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues part 2: TileStache Django tiny wrapper during my experiments I wanted to reach the goal of minimize both the bandwith consuption and the number of vector coordinates that the browser needs to handle, this means that [...]
Category: GIS , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-11
TileStache Django tiny wrapper
This is the second part of the story about my experiments with the wonderful TileStache that I started with TileStache and Polymaps SVG experiments. First, I would like to thank Michal for the quick patch inclusion, the Polymaps patch is still waiting for the pull and the Django admin patch is awating for somebody to [...]
Category: Django , GIS , JavaScript , Programmazione , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-09
Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues
A few days ago I started playing with Polymaps and TileStache, two very promising WebGIS building tools. The final goal of this experiments was the integration with Django. Polymaps Polymaps is a Javascript library aimed to display svg maps in a web page, recently I’ve watched to an interesting talk about a Django-powered app built [...]
Category: Django , GIS , JavaScript , Programmazione , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-05
QGIS Zuerich hackmeeting
Last november I participated to the international QGIS programmer’s meeting in Zuerich. It was a great opportunity to meet the QGIS developers I already knew from the previous meeting in Lisbon, and to know new interesting people. QGIS is quickly becoming one of the most important free software packages for GIS processing, I participate to [...]
Category: Django , GIS , Python
2011-12-16
django deployment with nginx and uwsgi
There are many tutorial/procedures on this topic, I just wish to add a few notes on the pieces I’ve found more obscure and difficult to setup. I’m running a VM on slicehost and I haven’t alredy found the resources to perform a full upgrade to something newer than the original Ubuntu Hardy which was installed [...]
Category: Django , Python , Tech
2011-09-09
Django DAG: my first reusable app on PyPi
Django DAG Django-dag is a small reusable app which implements a Directed Acyclic Graph. Usage Django-dag uses abstract base classes, to use it you must create your own concrete classes that inherit from Django-dag classes. The `dag_test` app contains a simple example and a unit test to show you its usage. Example class ConcreteNode(node_factory(’ConcreteEdge’)): [...]
Category: Django , Programmazione , Python , Tech
2011-02-15
Italian GFOSS Day 2010
Next week, from wednesday 18 to friday 19, I will attend in Foligno to the upcoming GFOSS Day 2010 holding two tutorials on GIS Python development and on a GeoDjango case study. Like previous editions of this event, it will be another fundamental opportunity to meet the other members of the Italian free GIS software community. Don’t miss this event, if you can!
Category: GIS , Python , WebGis
2010-11-12
QuickWKT QGIS plugin
We have just released a small QGIS python plugin for quickly displaying of WKT data.
2010-10-21
New GeoDjango platform launched!
A new group of websites based on open source web mapping software stack was launched last month.
The project was developed with GeoDjango and other well known OSS components in about six months.
Category: Django , Programmazione , Python , Realizzazioni , Varie
2010-05-28
