[postgis-users] Points within range of line

[Sean Gillies]

On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Adrian Holovaty wrote:

> Sean Gillies wrote:
>> Just curious, Adrian, have you started to work yet on any sort of GIS
>> feature model for Django?
>
> Hey Sean,
>
> I've been using Django with PostGIS on chicagocrime.org since the site 
> was
> launched in May, so it's entirely possible to use Django with GIS 
> data. :)
>
> There are no GIS-specific features yet in Django, but I'd love to 
> change that.
> For instance, it'd be cool to support the standard spatial object 
> types as
> Fields. Let me know if you can think of any useful GIS features that 
> lie
> within a Web framework's scope, or (better yet) if you're willing to 
> help
> out!
>
> Adrian

Adrian,

I'm thinking of Web + GIS all the time. I'm working with a Finnish 
Plone shop, MB Concert, and Nuxeo on cartographic objects for Zope 
which use the University of Minnesota MapServer rather than Google 
Maps. Between this Zope software and MapServer is a Python package that 
might be useful with Django. I'm calling it Python Cartographic Library 
because I have no knack for names, and intend it to be the "GeoTools 
for Python". It has a GeoTools-ish feature store abstraction for 
shapefiles and such using OGR, and I am expanding towards PostGIS and 
WFS.

The Zope work is aimed at integrating maps with these content 
management systems. We are tagging content with geometries so that site 
users can use a map to display or search for local content.

cheers,
Sean

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Sean Gillies
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