Geodjango with Geonames

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Geodjango with Geonames

I would like to implement a location based search, based on the geonames zip code dump. For that, I want to use geodjango, but I have no idea how to implement the geonames data for lookup. I don't want to use an external webservice.

Maybe someone already has realized that and has some inspirations for me?

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http://geodjango.org/hg/geonames/

Dane Springmeyer 2010-10-11 15:35:47

Looks good, I will try that - thanks!

sewid 2010-10-11 16:15:10

I tried that, the README says to execute: $ ./manage.py compress_geonames but I get "Unknown command: 'compress_geonames'". Did I miss something? I added the code as an application, included it in settings.py, ...

sewid 2010-10-11 19:30:19

Found my error, missed to copy some files from the management/commands subfolder. Another try...

sewid 2010-10-11 19:41:59

Another problem: the load_geonames.py tries to import "from django.contrib.gis.db.backend.postgis.creation import get_cmd_options", but there is no backend.postgis.creation. There is only a backends.postgis.creation in the current django version. Is this example outdated and if yes, is it possible to use it with the current django version? Sorry for all those "stupid" questions, I am new to django and am searching and searching for informations...

sewid 2010-10-11 22:08:36

I solved this problem by hardcoding the database name in this script. Then, the include is not required. But when importing the data, I get "ERROR: value too long for type character varying(6)". It seems, that this example application is not compatible to current django versions :-(

sewid 2010-10-12 06:22:01

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