If you don't need any spatial related queries (although django people uses something like that) you don't really need a spatial database. You can store geographic coordinates in either FloatFields or CharFields. Your question is more related to GoogleMaps API than django.
I'm assuming you only need to store points, not lines or shapes. If you try out some google maps API examples you'll find out it's pretty straightforward to let users post geographic coordinates to you backend. Publishing these coordinates on a map is even easier. I don't think there's anything special in django.contrib.gis that you may use. Except if you want to use the geo admin (which is awesome btw) in that case you'll need to use a spatial database. On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Alessandro wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Alex Gaynor > <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> I thought geo django is too much complex for what I need. I don't >>> need >>> to calculate spatial areas, only to store the gps coordinates of a >>> point and publish them in a google map, like django people does. >>> > > I'm looking for some documentation, but it seems not too simple. > it should be very easier if someone shared a sample simple app using > django.contrib.gis > > -- > Alessandro Ronchi > Skype: aronchi > http://www.alessandroronchi.net > > SOASI Soc.Coop. - www.soasi.com > Sviluppo Software e Sistemi Open Source > Sede: Via Poggiali 2/bis, 47100 Forlì (FC) > Tel.: +39 0543 798985 - Fax: +39 0543 579928 > > Rispetta l'ambiente: se non ti è necessario, non stampare questa mail > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
