PyMapKit

PyMapKit is a Python based open-source mapping toolkit. It can be used for creating maps, visualizing geospatial data, and developing GIS applications. It is built to be modular: so it can be very simple to use, but also to be integrated into complex mapping applications.

Basic Usage

## Import PyMapKit
import PyMapKit

## Create a PyMapKit Map object
m = PyMapKit.Map()

## Set Map Attributes
m.set_size(500, 500)
m.set_location(40.0, -81.0)
m.set_scale(500)

## Add tile layer
tile_layer = PyMapKit.TileLayer("https://tileserver.com/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}")

## Create data layers
vect_layer = PyMapKit.VectorLayer("./path/to/file.shp")
rast_layer = PyMapKit.VectorLayer("./path/to/file.tiff")

## Add layers to Map Object
m.add_layer(tile_layer)
m.add_layer(vect_layer)
m.add_layer(rast_layer)

## Render to file
m.render("map.png")

Installation

External Dependencies

PyMapKit requires two external libraries that require a non Python component installed. You will need to install these on your system before installing PyMapKit. These dependencies are:

• GDAL/OGR: for loading geospatial data, and warping raster datasets
• Cario: For drawing operations

Linux/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install python3-gdal python3-cairo

Windows:

Coming soon

Mac OSx:

Coming soon

Installing PyMapKit

To install PyMapKit from PyPI simply run:

pip install PyMapKit

Or to install from the GitHub repo:

git clone https://github.com/BenKnisley/PyMapKit.git
pip install -r ./PyMapKit/requirements.txt
pip install ./PyMapKit

Developer Extras

If you are contributing to PyMapKit make sure you also install the dev requirements as well.

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt