Pykarta

Pykarta is a Python library for displaying maps using Cairo. It includes a Gtk+ widget. It was inspired by OsmGpsMap and Leaflet.

Features

• Displays raster tile maps from Openstreetmap, Bing, etc.
• Uses Cairo to renderer OSM maps from GeoJSON vector tiles
• Fractional zoom
• Marker layer with SVG symbols
• Layer with editable vector objects
• Geocoding using Nominatim, Google, Bing, US Census, etc.
• Server for vector tiles and geocoder which uses data from openaddresses.io.

Requires:

• Pycairo
• Pygtk

There is no documentation yet, but the there are sample programs in the examples/ directory.

Installation

$ python ./setup.py install [--user]