Beginning GeoDjango: Rich GIS Web Applications with Python - Tapa blanda

Learn how to build mapping applications using GeoDjango, the leading open source geographic web framework.

Django is a web application framework that uses the Python programming language. It allows for rapid development while maintaining code and presentation layer separation, and it has many cool features to aid developers in creating feature-rich applications quickly.

GeoDjango extends the Django web framework to provide geographic models, database APIs, utilities, and functions. It makes the job of creating rich geographic web applications much easier.

This book will

• Introduce you to geographic information systems (GIS)
• Show you how GeoDjango makes GIS applications easy
• Help you quickly start to build your own geographic web applications

What you’ll learn

• Create geospatial data models.
• Add data to your applications using map-based interfaces.
• Use GeoDjango to create maps with Google or OpenStreetMap.
• Retrieve data with geospatial queries.
• Add location to feeds with GeoRSS.
• Provide location-based services using the GeoIP API.

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who want to create rich GIS web applications.