#25141: Remove GDAL Dependency for GeoJSON Serialiser
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Reporter: drepo | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: GIS | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords: GDAL, Dependency,
| GeoDjango, Serialiser, GeoJSON
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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The [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/gis/serializers/
documentation] for GeoJSON Serialiser introduced in Django 1.8
categorically states:
''The GDAL library is required for this serializer.''
The problem with GDAL is that it has a lot of system level dependencies
and does not play well with virtualenv - which is very common in Django
deployments. The system level dependencies also make to hard to integrate
it with a pip based dependency management workflow.
While there is a [https://github.com/dezhin/pygdal package] that claims to
wrap GDAL in a virtualenv friendly manner, in my trials, it was not
Python3 compatible which, I believe, is essential given that the Django
tutorials themselves now default to Py3.x.
PS: I have come across a [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geojson/ maintained
pure python] GeoJSON library. (Disclosure: I have no association with the
library/maintainers)
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