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Geo Django Quickstart

September 21, 2011 12:37 p.m.

GeoDjango is a very powerful tool for storing and manipulating geographic data using the Django ORM.  It provides a simple API to determine distances between two points on a map, find areas of polygons, locate the points within a polygon, and much more.  

GeoDjango is fairly well documented on the Django website.  My aim with this walkthrough is to reduce the Django documentation to a simple set of steps that will quickly get you started experimenting with GeoDjango.  As a result, some of the initial steps are summarized from the Django site with only slight modifications to fit the circumstances ...

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Updated 09/21/11 @ 12:37PM CDT by jjasinski

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