Re: Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-16 Thread David Christiansen
On Sep 15, 5:05 pm, chiggsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It makes a fair bit of sense.. I've heard a lot of good things about > jquery. If you could post the view later I think I'll be off and > running. Thank you for the help with this. I find the difficulty > with web coding is beginnings...

Re: Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-15 Thread chiggsy
It makes a fair bit of sense.. I've heard a lot of good things about jquery. If you could post the view later I think I'll be off and running. Thank you for the help with this. I find the difficulty with web coding is beginnings... I think that I'm getting a good idea on how to proceed. On

Re: Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-15 Thread David Christiansen
Here's what my code looks like to get information from the server to display on the map: function update_locations () { bounds = map.getBounds(); sw = bounds.getSouthWest(); ne = bounds.getNorthEast(); $.getJSON('/locations/locations/', {'lat1':sw.lat(),

Re: Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-15 Thread David Christiansen
I've had good luck with using GeoDjango and a custom Google Maps interface. The one included with GeoDjango was a bit sparse in features, but it did work. An easy way to get started might be to have GeoDjango generate you a map, and then take the generated code and use it as a starting point

Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-15 Thread chiggsy
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Re: Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-13 Thread TiNo
I wanted to do the same. I decided not to user GIS because of all the new stuff I needed to install. Two Coordinates are good enough for the google maps api. I plan on using geopy (http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy/) for translating addresses to coordinates. I also found these articles that

Map API's and Django, preferences?

2008-09-12 Thread chiggsy
I'm working on a little idea. I need to display data on a map. Now, I have been reading over the gis stuff in django, I've set up PostGIS , and now i'm trying to work out how do display the data. What are some opinons on Google maps vs yahoo maps, for ease of django development ? (I am brand