Python Geospatial Development - Third Edition

Defining the ShapeEditor's applications

We now have a Django project for our overall ShapeEditor system. We next need to break down our project into applications, following Django's design philosophy of having applications be small and relatively self-contained. Looking back at our design for the overall project, we can see several possible candidates for breaking the functionality into separate applications:

• Importing and exporting shapefiles
• Selecting features
• Editing features
• The tile map server

We're going to combine the first three into a single application called shapefiles, which will handle all the shapefile-related logic. We'll then have another application called tms, which implements our tile map server. Finally, we'll define one more application, ...