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Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Shapely
Version: 1.2.14
Summary: Geometric objects, predicates, and operations
Home-page: https://github.com/sgillies/shapely
Author: Sean Gillies
Author-email: sean.gillies@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: ======
        README
        ======
        
        PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Pythoneers and
        Pythonistas.
        
        .. image:: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4511827859_b5822043b7_o_d.png
           :width: 800
           :height: 400
        
        Shapely is a BSD-licensed Python package for manipulation and analysis of
        planar geometric objects. It is based on the widely deployed GEOS_ (the engine
        of PostGIS_) and JTS_ (from which GEOS is ported) libraries. This C dependency
        is traded for the ability to execute with blazing speed. Shapely is not
        concerned with data formats or coordinate systems, but can be readily
        integrated with packages that are. For more details, see:
        
        * Shapely wiki_
        * Shapely manual_
        * Shapely `example apps`_
        
        Dependencies
        ============
        
        Shapely 1.2 depends on:
        
        * Python >=2.5,<3
        * libgeos_c >=3.1 (3.0 and below have not been tested, YMMV)
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        Windows users should use the executable installer, which contains the required
        GEOS DLL. Other users should acquire libgeos_c by any means, make sure that it
        is on the system library path, and install from the Python package index::
        
          $ pip install Shapely
        
        or from a source distribution with the setup script::
        
          $ python setup.py install
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        Here is the canonical example of building an approximately circular patch by
        buffering a point::
        
          >>> from shapely.geometry import Point
          >>> patch = Point(0.0, 0.0).buffer(10.0)
          >>> patch
          <shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon object at 0x...>
          >>> patch.area
          313.65484905459385
        
        See the manual_ for comprehensive usage snippets and the dissolve.py and
        intersect.py `example apps`_.
        
        Integration 
        ===========
        
        Shapely does not read or write data files, but it can serialize and deserialize
        using several well known formats and protocols. The shapely.wkb and shapely.wkt
        modules provide dumpers and loaders inspired by Python's pickle module.::
        
          >>> from shapely.wkt import dumps, loads
          >>> dumps(loads('POINT (0 0)'))
          'POINT (0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000)'
        
        All linear objects, such as the rings of a polygon (like ``patch`` above),
        provide the Numpy array interface.::
        
          >>> from numpy import asarray
          >>> ag = asarray(patch.exterior)
          >>> ag
          array([[  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00],
                 [  9.95184727e+00,  -9.80171403e-01],
                 [  9.80785280e+00,  -1.95090322e+00],
                 ...
                 [  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00]])
        
        That yields a numpy array of [x, y] arrays. This is not always exactly what one
        wants for plotting shapes with Matplotlib (for example), so Shapely 1.2 adds
        a `xy` property for obtaining separate arrays of coordinate x and y values.::
        
          >>> x, y = patch.exterior.xy
          >>> ax = asarray(x)
          >>> ax
          array([  1.00000000e+01,   9.95184727e+00,   9.80785280e+00,  ...])
        
        Numpy arrays can also be adapted to Shapely linestrings::
        
          >>> from shapely.geometry import asLineString
          >>> asLineString(ag).length
          62.806623139095073
          >>> asLineString(ag).wkt
          'LINESTRING (10.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000, ...)'
        
        Testing
        =======
        
        Shapely uses a Zope-stye suite of unittests and doctests, exercised via
        setup.py.::
        
          $ python setup.py test
        
        Nosetests won't run the tests properly; Zope doctest suites are not currently
        supported well by nose.
        
        Support
        =======
        
        Bugs may be reported and questions asked via https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely.
        
        Credits
        =======
        
        Shapely is written by:
        
        * Sean Gillies
        * Aron Bierbaum
        * Kai Lautaportti
        * Oliver Tonnhofer
        
        Patches contributed by:
        
        * Howard Butler
        * Frédéric Junod
        * Éric Lemoine
        * Jonathan Tartley
        * Kristian Thy
        * Mike Toews (https://github.com/mwtoews)
        
        Additional help from:
        
        * Justin Bronn (GeoDjango) for ctypes inspiration
        * Martin Davis (JTS)
        * Jaakko Salli for the Windows distributions
        * Sandro Santilli, Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey, et al (GEOS_ Project)
        
        Major portions of this work were supported by a grant (for Pleiades_) from the
        U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).
        
        .. _JTS: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm
        .. _PostGIS: http://postgis.org
        .. _GEOS: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
        .. _example apps: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Examples
        .. _wiki: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Shapely
        .. _manual: http://toblerity.github.com/shapely/manual.html
        .. _Pleiades: http://pleiades.stoa.org
        
        
        Changes
        =======
        
        1.2.14 (2012-01-23)
        -------------------
        - A geometry's coords property is now sliceable, yielding a list of coordinate
          values.
        - Homogeneous collections are now sliceable, yielding a new collection of the
          same type.
        
        1.2.13 (2011-09-16)
        -------------------
        - Fixed errors in speedups on 32bit systems when GEOS references memory above
          2GB.
        - Add shapely.__version__ attribute.
        - Update the manual.
        
        1.2.12 (2011-08-15)
        -------------------
        - Build Windows distributions with VC7 or VC9 as appropriate.
        - More verbose report on failure to speed up.
        - Fix for prepared geometries broken in 1.2.11.
        - DO NOT INSTALL 1.2.11
        
        1.2.11 (2011-08-04)
        -------------------
        - Ignore AttributeError during exit.
        - PyPy 1.5 support.
        - Prevent operation on prepared geometry crasher (#12).
        - Optional Cython speedups for Windows.
        - Linux 3 platform support.
        
        1.2.10 (2011-05-09)
        -------------------
        - Add optional Cython speedups.
        - Add is_cww predicate to LinearRing.
        - Add function that forces orientation of Polygons.
        - Disable build of speedups on Windows pending packaging work.
        
        1.2.9 (2011-03-31)
        ------------------
        - Remove extra glob import.
        - Move examples to shapely.examples.
        - Add box() constructor for rectangular polygons.
        - Fix extraneous imports.
        
        1.2.8 (2011-12-03)
        ------------------
        - New parallel_offset method (#6).
        - Support for Python 2.4.
        
        1.2.7 (2010-11-05)
        ------------------
        - Support for Windows eggs.
        
        1.2.6 (2010-10-21)
        ------------------
        - The geoms property of an empty collection yields [] instead of a ValueError
          (#3).
        - The coords and geometry type sproperties have the same behavior as above.
        - Ensure that z values carry through into products of operations (#4).
        
        1.2.5 (2010-09-19)
        ------------------
        - Stop distributing docs/_build.
        - Include library fallbacks in test_dlls.py for linux platform.
        
        1.2.4 (2010-09-09)
        ------------------
        - Raise AttributeError when there's no backend support for a method.
        - Raise OSError if libgeos_c.so (or variants) can't be found and loaded.
        - Add geos_c DLL loading support for linux platforms where find_library doesn't
          work.
        
        1.2.3 (2010-08-17)
        ------------------
        - Add mapping function.
        - Fix problem with GEOSisValidReason symbol for GEOS < 3.1.
        
        1.2.2 (2010-07-23)
        ------------------
        - Add representative_point method.
        
        1.2.1 (2010-06-23)
        ------------------
        - Fixed bounds of singular polygons.
        - Added shapely.validation.explain_validity function (#226).
        
        1.2 (2010-05-27)
        ----------------
        - Final release.
        
        1.2rc2 (2010-05-26)
        -------------------
        - Add examples and tests to MANIFEST.in.
        - Release candidate 2.
        
        1.2rc1 (2010-05-25)
        -------------------
        - Release candidate.
        
        1.2b7 (2010-04-22)
        ------------------
        - Memory leak associated with new empty geometry state fixed.
        
        1.2b6 (2010-04-13)
        ------------------
        - Broken GeometryCollection fixed.
        
        1.2b5 (2010-04-09)
        ------------------
        - Objects can be constructed from others of the same type, thereby making
          copies. Collections can be constructed from sequences of objects, also making
          copies.
        - Collections are now iterators over their component objects.
        - New code for manual figures, using the descartes package.
        
        1.2b4 (2010-03-19)
        ------------------
        - Adds support for the "sunos5" platform.
        
        1.2b3 (2010-02-28)
        ------------------
        - Only provide simplification implementations for GEOS C API >= 1.5.
        
        1.2b2 (2010-02-19)
        ------------------
        - Fix cascaded_union bug introduced in 1.2b1 (#212).
        
        1.2b1 (2010-02-18)
        ------------------
        - Update the README. Remove cruft from setup.py. Add some version 1.2 metadata
          regarding required Python version (>=2.5,<3) and external dependency
          (libgeos_c >= 3.1).
        
        1.2a6 (2010-02-09)
        ------------------
        - Add accessor for separate arrays of X and Y values (#210).
        
        TODO: fill gap here
        
        1.2a1 (2010-01-20)
        ------------------
        - Proper prototyping of WKB writer, and avoidance of errors on 64-bit systems
          (#191).
        - Prototype libgeos_c functions in a way that lets py2exe apps import shapely
          (#189).
        
        1.2 Branched (2009-09-19)
        
        1.0.12 (2009-04-09)
        -------------------
        - Fix for references held by topology and predicate descriptors.
        
        1.0.11 (2008-11-20)
        -------------------
        - Work around bug in GEOS 2.2.3, GEOSCoordSeq_getOrdinate not exported properly
          (#178).
        
        1.0.10 (2008-11-17)
        -------------------
        - Fixed compatibility with GEOS 2.2.3 that was broken in 1.0.8 release (#176).
        
        1.0.9 (2008-11-16)
        ------------------
        - Find and load MacPorts libgeos.
        
        1.0.8 (2008-11-01)
        ------------------
        - Fill out GEOS function result and argument types to prevent faults on a
          64-bit arch.
        
        1.0.7 (2008-08-22)
        ------------------
        - Polygon rings now have the same dimensions as parent (#168).
        - Eliminated reference cycles in polygons (#169).
        
        1.0.6 (2008-07-10)
        ------------------
        - Fixed adaptation of multi polygon data.
        - Raise exceptions earlier from binary predicates.
        - Beginning distributing new windows DLLs (#166).
        
        1.0.5 (2008-05-20)
        ------------------
        - Added access to GEOS polygonizer function.
        - Raise exception when insufficient coordinate tuples are passed to LinearRing
          constructor (#164).
        
        1.0.4 (2008-05-01)
        ------------------
        - Disentangle Python and topological equality (#163).
        - Add shape(), a factory that copies coordinates from a geo interface provider.
          To be used instead of asShape() unless you really need to store coordinates
          outside shapely for efficient use in other code.
        - Cache GEOS geometries in adapters (#163).
        
        1.0.3 (2008-04-09)
        ------------------
        - Do not release GIL when calling GEOS functions (#158).
        - Prevent faults when chaining multiple GEOS operators (#159).
        
        1.0.2 (2008-02-26)
        ------------------
        - Fix loss of dimensionality in polygon rings (#155).
        
        1.0.1 (2008-02-08)
        ------------------
        - Allow chaining expressions involving coordinate sequences and geometry parts
          (#151).
        - Protect against abnormal use of coordinate accessors (#152).
        - Coordinate sequences now implement the numpy array protocol (#153).
        
        1.0 (2008-01-18)
        ----------------
        - Final release.
        
        1.0 RC2 (2008-01-16)
        --------------------
        - Added temporary solution for #149.
        
        1.0 RC1 (2008-01-14)
        --------------------
        - First release candidate
        
        
Keywords: geometry topology gis
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
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