Thinking in GIS

This time i will introduce a really brilliant framework that every serious Web/GIS developers should be aware of: GeoDjango.Django is a Python Web framework for agile developers. It implements best web frameworks practices like coding by convention, MVC, ORM, REST, URL dispatcher and so on. Django is for Python what Rails is for Ruby, Grails is for Java, and MonoRail (and now ASP.NET MVC) is for .NET.GeoDjango is a Django application that is now included in the Django trunk with a lot of excellent stuff for developing GIS web application.GeoDjango Building BlocksGeoDjango installation is based on Python, Django and two...
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In the previous post we have seen an introduction to FeatureServer, and we were just playing with the base edit sample, with the scribble layer.Now it is time to use FeatureServer with our datasets: I am assuming that you will want to create FeatureServer services for shapefiles, PostGIS layers, OpenStreetMap, Twitter and Flickr.Data preparation for this demo1) shapefilesIf you want to follow my steps, you can download the sample shapefiles of New York I was using to assemble this demo here: select New York as a state and then as a county, and download the Block Groups and the Roads,...
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