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Mapping point locations with Python and Microsoft Live Search Maps
This article was first published in the February 2008 issue of Python Magazine . It is being reproduced here with the permission of Marco Tabini and Associates .
Requirements
Python 2.4+
pyExcelerator module (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ )
Anthony Tuininga’s ceODBC module (http://sourceforge.net/html/ceODBC.html )
John Machin’s xlrd module (http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm )
Michael Foord’s cgiutils module (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/cgiutils.html )
Lets face it, using Python, we can pull data from virtually anywhere in the corporate enterprise - databases, text files, or other documents. But how can we easily visualize data that has place associated with it? Well, we turn to Python and the API of a popular web-mapping application, that’s how.
