Re: Django with GXmlHttp

2009-11-25 Thread 504Django
Tim, Thanks. That's exactly the kind of simple example that I was looking for of how to bridge the two worlds of Django templates and Ajax. BTW, me living in a major crucible of brass band music, I'm completely fascinated by your site and brass band culture in England -- of which to date I was com

Re: Django with GXmlHttp

2009-11-25 Thread Tim Sawyer
Not quite sure what you're looking for, but I've used google maps with django, without using GeoDjango. http://www.brassbandresults.co.uk/map/ The script used in this page is here: http://www.brassbandresults.co.uk/map/map_script.js which is generated using this template: function initializ

Re: Django with GXmlHttp

2009-11-24 Thread 504Django
Hmm ... the lack of a suggested solution to my question is discouraging. The lack of common knowledge in the developer community leads me to think that, aside from using the GeoDjango module, Django may not be able to elegantly integrate with Google Maps AJAX API. It that's truly the case, perhaps

Django with GXmlHttp

2009-11-23 Thread 504Django
There seems to be a dearth of examples illustrating best practices in deploying Google Maps with Django. Common recommendations are to use GeoDjango. Of course, it doesn't have to be Google Maps. It could be OpenSteetMap, Yahoo Maps, or some other mapping API. Not necessarily related, there are