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Thuban - a geographic data viewer |
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Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data. It is written in |
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Python using the wxWindows toolkit for portability. It runs on Unix-like |
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systems and on Windows. |
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About the Name |
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Thuban is the name of a star in the constellation Draco (The Dragon). |
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About 4000 years ago it was the north star. |
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Installation |
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Building Thuban (this compiles the extension modules but leaves them in |
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a directory under build/): |
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python setup.py build |
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To setup Thuban to run directly from the source directory: |
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python setup.py install_local |
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You can run this without running build first. |
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To install Thuban: |
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python setup.py install |
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for general information about the command line options of the setup.py |
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script, run |
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python setup.py --help |
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License |
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Thuban is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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(GPL). |
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However, some of the extension modules in the extension subdirectory are |
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licensed under other free licenses. See the respective README files for |
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more details. |
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