| Area | Library/Application | Notes |
| File I/O | Shapefile.py | Reads and writes shapefiles really easily |
| ArcGIS | Limited file read and write (shp, kml, tif, img) | |
| BlueSpray | All the typical GIS formats suppoed by GDAL/OGR | |
| GDAL/ORG | Open source with over 120 raster formats and lots of vector formats | |
| - Excel | ||
| Raster Transforms | ArcGIS | Wide array of transforms for raster and vector data. Raster transforms are relatively slow |
| BlueSpray | ||
| Vector Transforms | ||
| Stats | numpy, scipy | |
| R | ||
| Charts | matplotlib | |
| Map Rendering | mpl_toolkits.basemap | Includes a set of basemap elements that can be put together into a vareity of maps. Includes support for legends and graticules. |
| CartoPy |
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