Bug#797541: RFP: python-rtree -- R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : python-rtree
  Version         : 0.8.2
  Upstream Author : Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com>
* URL             : http://toblerity.org/rtree/
* License         : LGPL-2.1+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS

Rtree is a ctypes Python wrapper of libspatialindex that provides a
number of advanced spatial indexing features for the spatially curious
Python user. These features include:

 * Nearest neighbor search
 * Intersection search
 * Multi-dimensional indexes
 * Clustered indexes (store Python pickles directly with index entries)
 * Bulk loading
 * Deletion
 * Disk serialization
 * Custom storage implementation (to implement spatial indexing in ZODB,
   for example)


python-rtree is an optional dependency of imposm, and is probably best
maintained within the Debian GIS team along with imposm &
libspatialindex.