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Problems combining (union) Multipolygons in geodjango

I'm using geodjango and postgis (1.x), What is the best way to combine (union) a list of multipolygons. in what i assume is rather inefficient i'm looping trough like this combined = multipolygon ...
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GeoDjango / PostGIS - Cut geometry by bounding box

I am looking for a solution to retrieve the geometry(ies) from a polygon/multipolygon within a bounding box in a GeoDjango application. The application I am developing has a requirement to serve out ...
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Shapefile postgis database to be queried by GeoDjango

I would like to create a Postgres database (postgreslq-9.1 and postgis-2.0.2) storing several shapefiles but I am uncertain on how to implement it so I'm searching for some advices. I have already ...
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How to configure and install psycogpg2 - beginner?

I need to install psycogpg2 for working with 'django'. I read the instructions but I dont understand whether to run the commands in command prompt or in python command line. I am lot used to the GUI ...
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Unit testing with postgis 1.5 and django

I'm trying to get some unit tests working in Django/PostGis. When the test database is formed, it doesn't have the postgis and postgis_topology extensions installed. Is there a way to issue commands ...
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Polygon intersection with bounding box with polygon's holes intact

I am trying to serve GeoJSON FeatureCollection tiles with each feature's geometries trimmed to the tile boundary. I am working on a Leaflet plugin to re-assemble the geometries. It works by building ...
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General GeoDjango Opinion

I'm forced to crawl out of my intranet and create a public GIS site with quite an extensive dataset. All of my data is contained within PostGIS. I started dabbling with Geoserver/Postgis/OpenLayers ...
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How to set up GeoDjango with PostGIS 2.0?

I would like to run GeoDjango (Django 1.4) with Postgis 2.0. Whenever I try to run syncdb I get the following error for geographic fields: Failed to install index for stores.Store model: operator ...
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Django client install postgresql/postgis on Ubuntu 12.04

Does anyone know what apt packages one should install for a postgres(8.4)/postgis(1.5) django (1.4) client on ubuntu 12.04? All recipes seem to assume that I want to install the full ...
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Why are the results different for the same point using GEOS Point.transform and Postgis ST_Transform?

I'm trying to define a default point setting for OSM layers in my application and I want users to be able to define the default latitude and longitude in EPSG:4326. What I'm doing right now is to use ...
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Invoke PostGIS functions outside of the database? Need to force 3D in GeoDjango

I'm looking to ensure that all geometries saved to the database are three-dimensional. It's easy enough to do with a call to the database, select ST_Force_3D( ST_GeomFromText( blah blah ) ) ...but ...
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DatabaseError: Coordinate values are out of range [-180 -90, 180 90] for GEOGRAHY type

I am using Django 1.3, PostGIS 2.0 , Postgresql 9.0 and GeoDjango. I had a database with a table for places. This table had latitude and longitude for places in the US. I enabled this database with ...
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Unable to create spatial database for geodjango [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to verify a PostGIS installation on OS X? I am trying to install PostGIS for MacOS X and uptil now this is what i got PostGIS is now configured for ...
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Install PostGIS from beginning [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to verify a PostGIS installation on OS X? Ok, so i tried installing PostGIS for MacOS X from HomeBrew. Once i started installing, brew install postgis It ...
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How to verify a PostGIS installation on OS X?

I am trying to set up GeoDjango and installing PostGIS on my mac and when I am trying to ./configure I am getting this error checking PostgreSQL version... PostgreSQL 8.4.9 checking libpq-fe.h ...
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template_postgis missing functions [closed]

When I install postgis using the mac ox binary installing or create the template_postgis manually using the instructions provided on the Geo Django docs the template_postgis DB is created but it ...
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Using OpenLayers (with OpenStreetMaps) and PostGis for rendering data acquired from GPS tracking device?

I'm researching and planing to acquire data from GPS device and store them in postGIS database, then use geodjango to process/work them out and finally chart them on a map with OpenLayers. Will these ...
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Best way to exclude 0,0 from geography results (PostGIS, GeoDjango)

Using PostGis and GeoDjango with a model having a Geography field I'm trying to exclude results where the location is 0,0. I get the error PostGIS geography does not support the "exact" lookup. The ...
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Geodjango distance between two points appears incorrect

I want to show you something. I am using django+postgis and I am experiencing wrong distance values between two points. This is my model: class Location(models.Model): name = ...
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Using a geodjango PointField with geography=True, my distance calculations are wrong

Here's my model: class ExchangeArea(models.Model): """ An Exchange Service Area, calculated from a phone exchange and surrounding census tracts. """ coordinates = ...
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Why is my PostGIS query not using a spatial index?

I am having an issue with a spatial query that is not making use of indexes. My schema is: CREATE TABLE geoplanet_place ( woeid integer NOT NULL, "name" character varying(300) NOT NULL, ...
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Can Polygons be generalized to MultiPolygons in GeoDjango?

I set up a model with models.PolygonField in geodjango, using postgres as database. I try to import shp into postgres. The problem is, shp (compiled with QGIS) mixes polygon and multipolygon, hence it ...
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How to mix coordinate systems in GeoDjango?

This is a beginner question about working with different coordinate systems in GeoDjango. I've got a GeoDjango object with a polygon field, stored as OSGB coordinates: class Region(models.Model): ...
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PostGIS + pgRouting: Adding dummy links to a road network and performing routing analysis

I'm a beginner when it comes to postgis and pgrouting development. For a project I'm working on and a bit of the algorithm: I have a polygon layer that represents zones I have a line layer that ...
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PostGIS - certain MultiPolygons cause “BOOM! Could not generate outside point!”

I've just posted this at StackOverflow and someone suggested I try here. Original: http://stackoverflow.com/q/5863859/246265 I'm trying to represent a rectangular area which crosses 180 degrees ...
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struggling with GeoDjango install: ERROR: could not access file “$libdir/postgis-1.5”: No such file

I'm installing GeoDjango on Mac OSX. I've followed the official Mac install instructions, which all went smoothly, and am now creating a spatial database template for PostGIS. However, when I try to ...