[PyQt] How to show maps in GUI and get coordinates with clicks

[Echavarria Gregory, Maria Angelica]

Good afternoon group,

I have my working GUI programmed in PyQt. Now I need to:

1. show a map (raster image) as foreground in my QGraphicsView with a specified coordinate pair in the middle of the QGraphicsView,
and more important:
2. be able to pass sets of coordinates when users click on a point of the map

What is the simplest way of doing this? any examples?
Does the GDAL library for Python have some use in this PyQt application?

Thanks so much,

M. Angelica Echavarria-Gregory,
Ph.D Candidate
University of Miami
Phone 305 284-3611