GeoDesk for Python allows you to query, analyze, display and transform OpenStreetMap features using the world’s most popular scripting language.

In this Guide:

• Quickstart: Set up Python, install GeoDesk, create your first GOL and dive straight in.
• Basic geometric objects, from Coordinate and Box to the Geometry classes of the Shapely library.
• Working with features and feature sets
• Visualizing features on a Map and converting them to other formats
• Advanced topics, such as explicitly transforming coordinates to and from the Mercator projection