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Pros and cons of using Ruby/Rails/RGeo or Python/GeoDjango for a web based GIS

We're at the investigation phase of creating a web based GIS. We're assessing options for an ORM to use in all of our backend import/export and processing routines. From my research, GeoDjango appears ...
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Mapnik - Error on rendering linestring

I am using Mapnik 2.0.1rc0 on a Windows 7 with python 2.7 32bits inside a GeoDjango App using xml. The datasource come from spatialite 4.0. My tiling script can render polygon and point features ...
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mapnik error - fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed

I am using Mapnik 2.0.1rc0 on a Windows 7 with python 2.7 32bits inside a GeoDjango App. I often got this error: fatal flex scanner internal error--end of buffer missed that makes python to crash ...
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GeoDjango - Use GDAL python binding in the shell

I would like to use the GDAL python binding in my GeoDjango site. The aim of this is to use ogr2ogr capabilities in a script. I am on windows 7 so I have installed GDAL-1.9.2.win32-py2.7 downloaded ...
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Get the distance between 2 WGS84 GEOSGeometries

I currently want to check if 2 given GEOSGeometry objects of type Point are within 100m of each other. (length flexible) Looking at previous asked questions on this topic, most of the answers were ...
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Checking if a point is in a circle

I'm using shapely to check if a point is in a polygon, but I also need to check if a point is in a circle. Checking the docs, I don't see how do that... Maybe I could create a circle? circle = ...
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How to compute geodesic area in GeoDjango?

I have some polygons which can be anywhere in the world. I would like to compute their areas. The GeoDjango docs for GEOSGeometry.area don't specify whether it is geometric or geodesic area, but ...
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GeoDjango Changing My Coordinates

I'm running into a problem when saving a coordinate into one of my models in (Geo)Django. My point field is setup as: location = PointField(blank=True, null = True) So while running some tests in ...
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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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geodjango slowness and debugging

I'm using geodjango + postgres to display polygons from tigerline on a map. Pretty simple stuff so far. My issue is that when I use the GPolygon object: django.contrib.gis.maps.google.GPolygon there ...
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Wrap GEOS functionality into python

I've been looking on how to get GEOSExtractLine available in python. I looked into Shapely source to if it was available for it, but it's not. I'm trying to wrap this funcionality into Django, much ...
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GeoPortal Managing Tool [closed]

i know in this site everybody more or less have been setup a geoportal for showing their basemaps and analysis on local or net for their workers or conserned people in the net. it is obvious that in ...
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GeoDjango 'NoneType' error when using 'distance' function

I have a site that's working on our staging server but after copying it to the live server I am getting the following error when trying to perform a distance() call (code cut down to minimum) ...
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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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Use Esri Geoservices REST as backend for Python web framework (Django?)

I would like to know if it's feasible to use an existing Python web framework such as Django/GeoDjango as a frontend to work with Esri's Geoservices REST API? I envision developing a database engine ...
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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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Optimize GEOSGeometry's spatial operations by avoiding thread-safety checks

A ranking algorithm I'm developing for a Django webapp requires performing spatial operations (within, intersections, sym_difference, etc.) using a query against large number of geometry objects. ...
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Area units for GEOS area property?

I'm working with GeoDjango and have a polygon in the WGS84 projection. I need to find its area in square meters. When I call polygon.area, I get some float out and I have no idea what the units of ...
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Is there a GeoDjango tutorial for GeoRSSFeeds?

I'm going through GeoDjango basics right now. Ideally, I'd like to publish a GeoRSS from a set of data I have that is already in Django's database. I know how to get a regular Feed working, but when I ...