What you need for this book

The third edition of this book has been extended to support Python 3, though you can continue to use Python 2 if you wish to. You will also need to download and install the following tools and libraries, though full instructions are given in the relevant sections of this book:

  • GDAL/OGR
  • GEOS
  • Shapely
  • Proj
  • pyproj
  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • pyscopg2
  • Mapnik
  • Django