================================================= Python Spatial Analysis Library ================================================= .. Contents:: What is PySAL -------------- PySAL is an open source cross-platform library of spatial analysis functions written in Python. It is intended to support the development of high level applications for spatial analysis. 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. End users looking for a user friendly graphical user interface for spatial analysis should not turn to PySAL directly. Instead, we would direct them to projects like STARS and the GeoDaX suite of software products which wrap PySAL functionality in GUIs. At the same time, we expect 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. PySAL package structure ----------------------- Currently PySAL consists of the following files and directories: LICENSE.txt PySAL license. INSTALL.txt PySAL prerequisites, installation, testing, and troubleshooting. THANKS.txt PySAL developers and contributors. Please keep it up to date!! README.txt PySAL structure (this document). setup.py Script for building and installing PySAL. MANIFEST.in Additions to distutils-generated PySAL tar-balls. CHANGELOG.txt Changes since the last release pysal/ Contains PySAL __init__.py and the directories of PySAL modules. doc/ Contains PySAL documentation using the Sphinx framework. PySAL modules +++++++++++++ * pysal.cg — Computational Geometry * pysal.contrib - Contributed modules * pysal.core — Core Data Structures and IO * pysal.esda — Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis * pysal.examples — Data Sets * pysal.inequality — Spatial Inequality Analysis * pysal.region — Spatially constrained clustering * pysal.spatial_dynamics — Spatial Dynamics * pysal.spreg — Regression and diagnostics * pysal.weights — Spatial Weights Website ------- All things PySAL can be found here http://pysal.org/ Mailing Lists ------------- Please see the developer's list here http://groups.google.com/group/pysal-dev Help for users is here http://groups.google.com/group/openspace-list Bug reports ----------- To search for or report bugs, please see http://code.google.com/p/pysal/issues/list License information ------------------- See the file "LICENSE.txt" for information on the history of this software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.