Real-time data is an exciting way to do new types of geospatial analysis, only recently made possible by advances in several different technologies, including web mapping, GPS, and wireless communications. In this chapter, you learned how to access raw feeds for real-time location data, how to acquire a subset of real-time raster data, how to combine different types of real-time data into a custom map analysis product using only Python, and how to build client-server geospatial applications to update a GIS in real-time.
As with previous chapters, these examples contain building blocks that will let you build new types of application using Python that go far beyond the typical popular and ubiquitous JavaScript-based mashups.
In the next chapter, we will combine everything we've learned so far into a complete geospatial application that applies algorithms and concepts...