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1 WorldMill
2 =========
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4 WorldMill provides a smoother and more productive Python interface to the open
5 source GIS community's most trusted geodata access library; doing for libgdal_
6 what lxml does for libxml2. WorldMill integrates readily with other Python GIS
7 packages such as pyproj_, Rtree_, and Shapely_.
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10 Dependencies
11 ------------
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13 WorldMill requires libgdal 1.3.2+.
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16 Building
17 --------
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19 From the distribution root::
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21   $ ./cypsrc
22   $ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
23   $ PYTHONPATH=src python tests.py
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25 If you have ogr.py installed, you can compare to WorldMill::
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27   $ PYTHONPATH=src python benchmark.py
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30 Usage
31 -----
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33 See `docs/reading-data.txt`_ for examples.
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35 .. _libgdal: http://www.gdal.org
36 .. _pyproj: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyproj/
37 .. _Rtree: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rtree/
38 .. _Shapely: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/
39 .. _docs/reading-data.txt: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/browser/WorldMill/trunk/docs/reading-data.txt
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