Francis Yaconiello

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I do web development, mostly PHP using the Zend Framework but I'm starting to get involved in a little Python & Django.

Hit me up, I'm pretty knowledgable about a wide variety of development trivia.


Sep
17
comment Usage of GeoDjango
I thing you need an = sign: qs = Events.objects.filter(point__distance_lte=(pnt, D(km=5)))
Sep
17
comment Django PolygonField: how to display on map?
This is a pared down example of what I'm doing here: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27300/…
Sep
17
answered Django PolygonField: how to display on map?
Jul
8
awarded  Teacher
Jul
8
answered My house address isn't listed on Google Maps
Jun
20
awarded  Scholar
Jun
20
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
i went ahead and marked this as the answer, the project got pulled and i'm no longer working on it. thanks for the great discussion.
Jun
20
accepted geodjango slowness and debugging
Jun
19
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
im dealing with US census data mostly boundaries for states (some like VA, some like HI). islands seem to need to be handled separately because the distances between those points are more significant. I almost fell like simplification shouldn't be based on a constant. Instead siimplification should reduce points based on some factor of standard deviation of distances between points for each specific polygon.
Jun
15
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
in that case I'm back to my original question, how do you determine programatically the correct tolerance?
Jun
15
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
that is interesting, I think the simplify function in geodjango may be buggy then. On smaller polygons I noticed that If i specified a tolerance too high that the polygon would break (not validate as a geos polygon) I figured that had to do with oversimplification and that I should adjust the simplification level based on the number of nodes (which worked to a degree, but seemed error prone)
Jun
15
awarded  Editor
Jun
15
revised geodjango slowness and debugging
update on progress
Jun
15
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
I figured reducing the number of vertices would be key, however, choosing the simplification factor for each polygon seems not as straight forward. any idea on a good algorithm for that? my get_tolerance(num_points) function sometimes breaks if it tries to simplify a poly too much. Thanks for responding
Jun
12
awarded  Student
Jun
12
comment geodjango slowness and debugging
Thanks for migrating this question over. I may leave it open for a while and see if anyone has a better solution than what I came up with. Thanks for taking interest.
Apr
11
asked geodjango slowness and debugging
Mar
26
awarded  Supporter
Mar
26
awarded  Autobiographer