Hello everyone, So I've installed GDAL, PostGIS, PROJ.4, and GEOS. I have Postgres set up too.
What I need help on is the logistics of getting the GeoDjango portion of my website up and running. I already have my website code I'm just trying to add in GeoDjango so I can handle geographic operations on the website. So I've been reading here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#introduction I see: Create GeoDjango Project<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#create-geodjango-project> Use the django-admin.py script like normal to create a geodjango project: $ django-admin.py startproject geodjango With the project initialized, now create a world Django application within the geodjango project: $ cd geodjango$ python manage.py startapp world Configure settings.py<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#configure-settings-py> The geodjango project settings are stored in the geodjango/settings.py file. Edit the database connection settings appropriately: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'NAME': 'geodjango', 'USER': 'geo', }} In addition, modify the INSTALLED_APPS<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/settings/#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS> setting to include django.contrib.admin<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/admin/#module-django.contrib.admin> , django.contrib.gis<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/#module-django.contrib.gis>, and world (our newly created application): INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.gis', 'world') My question is do I need to start a new project if I already have one project already? I already have my project "madtrak" which is the project that contains my entire website. Do I need a separate project just for GeoDjango? I thought that the start project command was only done once and for the website. Or do I need to run "django-admin.py startproject geodjango" ? If I find that I don't need to start a new project that would help a lot because then I would already have a settings.py file with my installed apps and an app that will have a model that connects up to the Geodjango database. One more thing on this topic I see: 'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', Even if I don't need an entire separate project do I need to add this backend to my current django project? That way I can handle all the Geodjango necessities? Because currently I have: 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', and I would guess that is not sufficient. Any advice on handling my current settings file and interfacing that with the GeoDjango database would be great! Okay secondly I see this: Create a Spatial Database<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#create-a-spatial-database> Note MySQL and Oracle users can skip this section because spatial types are already built into the database. First, a spatial database needs to be created for our project. If using PostgreSQL and PostGIS, then the following commands will create the database from a spatial database template<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/install/#spatialdb-template> : $ createdb -T template_postgis geodjango So it seems to me I need a new database because it will be a spatial database for GeoDjango? I would think my current database would not be sufficient because there is nothing special about it to hold the geometric data I will need to process with GeoDjango. So do I need to run this command and set up a new database and remove my old one? If I do this is the idea that I have those extra features that I need in my spatial database for GeoDjango and I then have the option on when to use that functionality within each django app I build? Any advice regarding the integration of GeoDjango into a current django project environment would be really useful! Thanks so much for your time. JJ Zolper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/RP4zIl1e4XoJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
