Introduction

Shapely, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely, is a ctypes based Python wrapper around GEOS ("Geometry Engine - Open Source"), available from http://geos.refractions.net/ .

For a properly configured Python install, you should just be able to run 'easy_install Shapely' to install it, though installing GEOS requires additional work.

Functions

• Buffer -- takes a list of features and returns the buffered features.