[OSGeoLive] Python MapServer MapScript Notebook

[Seth G]

Hi again,

The Binder URL for the online interactive notebook should be https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/geographika/OSGeoLive12-Notebooks/master?filepath=jupyter%2Fquickstarts%2Fmapscript-quickstart.ipynb

Regards,

Seth

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On Wed, Nov 7, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Seth G wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> I've completed a new Jupyter notebook to give a quickstart guide to 
> MapServer's MapScript Python bindings. Hopefully this can get included 
> in the next OSGeoLive release. 
> 
> This is published to 
> https://hub.mybinder.org/user/geographika-osg-ive12-notebooks-ptgaaead/notebooks/jupyter/quickstarts/mapscript-quickstart.ipynb
> I added a custom Dockerfile to the repository which allows full 
> customisation of the VM created to run the notebook - this could be a 
> nice approach to have the notebooks both on OSGeoLive and online at the 
> OSGeoLive site through mybinder. 
> 
> The source code is at 
> https://github.com/geographika/OSGeoLive12-Notebooks/tree/master/jupyter/quickstarts
> I used a Python library jupytext to convert between plain script and 
> notebook format (which helps greatly in testing). 
> 
> This can be run on the current OSGeoLive12 VM using the following commands:
> 
>     wget https://github.com/geographika/OSGeoLive12-Notebooks/archive/master.zip
>     unzip master.zip
>     cd OSGeoLive12-Notebooks-master/jupyter/quickstarts
>     export MAPSERVER_DEMO="/rofs/usr/local/share/mapserver/demos/itasca"   
>     python -m jupyter notebook mapscript-quickstart.ipynb
> 
> I have a few questions on the notebook approach that I'll put in a 
> separate email.
> Regards,
> 
> Seth
> 
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