Introduction

GeoAlchemy provides extensions to SQLAlchemy to work with spatial databases.

The current supported spatial database systems are PostGIS, Spatialite, MySQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server 2008.

Installation

To install GeoAlchemy use EasyInstall as follows:

$ easy_install GeoAlchemy

Or, download the package, change into the geoalchemy dir and type:

$ python setup.py install

GeoAlchemy is known to work with Python 2.5 and Python 2.6, but it should also work with Python 2.4 and 2.7.

Documentation

The documentation is available online at http://geoalchemy.org.

Package Contents

geoalchemy/
Source code of the project.
geoalchemy/tests/
Unittests for GeoAlchemy.
doc/
Documentation source.
examples/
A few examples demonstrating usage.

License

GeoAlchemy is released under the MIT License.

Authors

  • Éric Lemoine (maintainer)
  • Sanjiv Singh
  • Tobias Sauerwein

History

GeoAlchemy was initiated by Sanjiv Singh, during Google Summer of Code 2009, under the mentorship of Mark Ramm-Christensen. The initial code was based on example code written by Michael Bayer, the author of SQLAlchemy project.