looking for good geospatial library [closed]

Question

What's a good library for geospatial functions? I mean things like

• distance between two points on the globe
• coordinates of a circle of a given radius from a particular point
• etc.

Bonus if there's an interface to the various ways different databases represent geolocations.

I'm a geo-noob (in case this question didn't make it obvious), so pointers to other geolocation/geospatial resources are welcome.

C++ and Python preferred, but all pointers welcome.

Answer 1

I've enjoyed using geopy. It's a simple library that finds great-circle distance in a number of projections. Geopy also provides a single interface to multiple geocoders like Google Maps and Microsoft Earth to give you coordinates for a street address.

You might be interested in the Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: GIS section in PyPi.