| PackageDescription | Python Spatial Analysis Library - Python 2
PySAL is an open source library of spatial analysis functions written in
Python intended to support the development of high level applications.
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It is important to underscore what PySAL is, and is not, designed to do. First
and foremost, PySAL is a library in the fullest sense of the word. Developers
looking for a suite of spatial analytical methods that they can incorporate
into application development should feel at home using PySAL. Spatial analysts
who may be carrying out research projects requiring customized scripting,
extensive simulation analysis, or those seeking to advance the state of the art
in spatial analysis should also find PySAL to be a useful foundation for their
work.
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End users looking for a user friendly graphical user interface for spatial
analysis should not turn to PySAL directly. Instead, they should consider
projects like STARS and the GeoDaX suite of software products which wrap PySAL
functionality in GUIs. At the same time, it's expected that with developments
such as the Python based plug-in architectures for QGIS, GRASS, and the
toolbox extensions for ArcGIS, that end user access to PySAL functionality
will be widening in the near future.
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This package contains the pysal library for Python 2. |