Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook

Setting up a GeoDjango web application

We need to get some basic Django groundwork done and this will be a very high-level fly over at setting up the required basics to start a Django web application. Check out the official Django tutorials for further information at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/.

Note

If you are not familiar with Django or GeoDjango, I would highly recommend that you read through and complete the online tutorials, starting with Django at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ followed by the GeoDjango tutorial at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/. For this chapter, it is assumed that you are familiar with Django, have completed the entire online Django tutorial, and are, therefore, ...