GeoDjango opens new opportunities for free and low cost geo application

Since google map matrix has pricing plans, web developers are started thinking of an alternative. I guess, you can use https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/10.2708/76.3780 as an alternative since lot of companies and institutions are contributing for it.

Its quite interesting and innovative idea that Django ( python webdevelopment framework) is coming up with module for geographic web application GeoDjango. GeoDjango is an included contrib module for Django that turns it into a world-class geographic Web framework. GeoDjango strives to make it as simple as possible to create geographic Web applications, like location-based services. Its features include:


Django model fields for OGC geometries and raster data.
Extensions to Django’s ORM for querying and manipulating spatial data.
Loosely-coupled, high-level Python interfaces for GIS geometry and raster operations and data manipulation in different formats.
Editing geometry fields from the admin.

how to build Django admin page

It might be a time consuming and headache to build admin page for website. But the case is so cool with Django :-). I started with Django because I like python language. But its so amazing that you can build some pretty cool things in short span of time.It was a little difficult to start with it,but in my experience its pretty easy thing once you used with it. Below is the tutorial I followed to build the admin page.

http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter06.html

Models in Django to create tables

How to connect Mysql database to Django

manged to install mysql database in ubuntu and created some tables using Models in Django.

Below online book is really helpful to master Django- http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter05.html

models.py:




Mysql: