Developing Geospatial Solutions using Open Source
Approach for writing this book
We will start writing this book by listing practical problems and then identifying tools for solving those problems. As the list of problems increases they should be organized into groups etc.
- Problem: Share GPS data between applications
- Subproblem: Parse GPX
- Explanation: GPX is an XML application for GPS data. Parsing gives us the GPS data.
- Problem:
- Subproblem: GeoTag Media
- Explanation:
- Problem:
- Subproblem: Track logs
- Explanation:
| Use case | Description | Perl | Ruby | Python |
| Parse GPX | What is GPX? | Perl based solution | Ruby based solution | PyGPX |
| GeoTag Media | RDFWeb geoloc_media.pl (original geoloc_media) | Ruby? | Python? | |
| Track logs | Geo::Track::Log | Ruby | Python |