GeoAlchemy Installation

The prerequisites for GeoAlchemy installation are:

• Python
• A Supported Spatial Database (either of PostGIS, MySQL, Spatialite)
• Python DB-API for the database
• Setuptools

GeoAlchemy can then be installed from cheese shop using the easy_install command:

$ easy_install GeoAlchemy

This will download and install the following packages from the Python Package Index aka Cheeseshop:

• SQLAlchemy
• GeoAlchemy

You are now ready to use GeoAlchemy.

Alternatively GeoAlchemy can be installed from source.