:Author: Jachym Cepicky, Jorge de Jesus
:Reviewer: 
:Version: osgeo-live8.0
:License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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  :alt: project logo
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  :target: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/


PyWPS
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Web Service
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PyWPS :doc:`(WPS) <../standards/wps_overview>` enables you to created and deploy
custom geospatial operations (refered as Process) on the server. The geospatial
operation shall be written using Python programming language. Within this
environment, you are allowed to use any tool, you need, such as GRASS GIS, R,
GDAL/OGR, Proj4 and other libraries with Python bindigs.

PyWPS distribution does not contain any process by itself (except for examples
used for unit testing). Every user has to / can create any process she needs to
interface on the internet.

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    :scale: 50 %
    :alt: screenshot
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Core Features
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Core GIS functions:

* Pure Python
* Small
* Easy and fast to install and setup
	
Backend algorithms available through:

* GRASS 7
* R
* GDAL/OGR
* Proj4
* NumPy
* Shapely
* ...

Implemented Standards
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* OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)

Details
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**Website:** http://pywps.wald.intevation.org

**Licence:** GPL

**Software Version:** 3.2.2

**Supported Platforms:** Windows, Linux, Mac

.. **Commercial Support:** http://les-ejk.cz


Quickstart
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* :doc:`Quickstart documentation <../quickstart/pywps_quickstart>`