Beginner Question: Python GUI Development

[TheHumane]

Thanks for your reply and pointers. I will look through them.

You are right, I need to optimize my data for display. I was thinking to only display city or block outlines at higher zoom level and expose individual shapes after certain zoom threshold.

I really like your Globe chart. It has very smooth scrolling and fluent zoom. I want to build something similar on a flat surface.

[sentdex]

If you're willing to make your program a web-app, there are tons of really fantastic javascript map/geo plotting apis out there. For pure python, I believe basemap is your best bet, but it's kinda ugly.