Thuban - a geographic data viewer
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Thuban is an interactive viewer for geographic data. It is written in
Python using the wxWindows toolkit for portability. It runs on Unix-like
systems and on Windows.


About the Name
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Thuban is the name of a star in the constellation Draco (The Dragon).
About 4000 years ago it was the north star.


Installation
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Building Thuban:

   python setup.py build


To setup Thuban to run directly from the source directory:

   python setup.py install_local

You can run this without running build first.


To install Thuban:

   python setup.py install


for general information about the command line options of the setup.py
script, run

   python setup.py --help



License
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Thuban is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL).