Simon Willison’s Weblog

MapOSMatic. Clever service built on top of OpenStreetMap, which renders double sided city maps with a map and grid on one size and an A-Z street name index on the other. Runs on top of Mapnik, PostGIS and Cairo, with a few thousand additional lines of Python and Django.

# 11th July 2010, 12:15 pm / cairo, django, maposmatic, mapping, openstreetmap, postgis, postgresql, python, recovered

Doing things with Ordnance Survey OpenData. Jo Walsh’s guide to processing Ordnance Survey OpenData using PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

# 20th May 2010, 3:22 pm / jo-walsh, mapping, open-data, ordnancesurvey, postgis, postgresql, recovered

Installing GeoDjango Dependencies with Homebrew. brew update && brew install postgis && brew install gdal

# 7th May 2010, 2:40 pm / django, geodjango, homebrew, osx, postgis, postgresql, recovered

Install Django, GeoDjango, PostgreSQL and PostGIS on OSX Leopard. This tutorial worked perfectly for me.

# 24th July 2009, 11:47 am / django, geodjango, python, osx, postgresql, postgis

Google Maps Data API (via) I’m disappointed by this one—it’s really just a CRUD store for the KML files used in Google MyMaps. It would be a lot more useful if it let you perform geospatial calculations against your stored map data using some kind of query API—a cloud service alternative to tools like PostGIS.

# 20th May 2009, 9:07 pm / postgis, google-maps, google-maps-api, googlemapsdataapi, gdata, apis, gis, kml

Represent. Andrei Scheinkman and Derek Willis describe how they built the NYTimes Represent feature using GeoDjango and PostGIS.

# 29th December 2008, 10:10 pm / derek-willis, andrei-scheinkman, new-york-times, django, geodjango, python, postgresql, postgis, gis