Le mie letture per TANTO

It has been way to long since the initial release, but it’s finally there: a new release of GeoCouch. For all first time visitors, GeoCouch is an extension for CouchDB to support geo-spatial queries like bounding box or polygon searches.

I keep this blog entry relatively short and only outline the highlights and requirements for the new release as GeoCouch finally has a real home at http://gitorious.org/geocouch/. Feel free to contribute to the wiki or fork the source.

Highlights

• Many geometries are supported: points, lines, polygons (using Shapely).
• Queries are largely along the lines of the OpenSearch-Geo extension draft. Currently supported are bounding box and polygon searches.
• Adding new backends (in addition to SpatiaLite) is easily possible.

Requirements

• Linux 2.6.26
• CouchDB 0.10.0
• Python 2.6.0
• couchdb-python 0.6.x (0.6.0 doesn't work)
• Shapely 1.0.12
• APSW - Another Python SQLite Wrapper 3.5.9-r2
• SpatiaLite 2.3.1

Other versions might work.

Download

If you don’t like Git, you can download GeoCouch 0.10.0 here.