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Python Geospatial Development

You're reading from   Python Geospatial Development Develop sophisticated mapping applications from scratch using Python 3 tools for geospatial development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785288937
Length 446 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Erik Westra Erik Westra
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Geospatial Development Using Python FREE CHAPTER 2. GIS 3. Python Libraries for Geospatial Development 4. Sources of Geospatial Data 5. Working with Geospatial Data in Python 6. Spatial Databases 7. Using Python and Mapnik to Generate Maps 8. Working with Spatial Data 9. Improving the DISTAL Application 10. Tools for Web-based Geospatial Development 11. Putting It All Together – a Complete Mapping System 12. ShapeEditor – Importing and Exporting Shapefiles 13. ShapeEditor – Selecting and Editing Features Index

Implementing the shapefile list view

When the user first opens the ShapeEditor, we want them to see a list of the previously uploaded shapefiles, with Import, Edit, Export, and Delete options. The Django application that implements this list view and its related functionality will be called shapefiles; let's go ahead and create this application now.

Open a terminal or command-line window, cd into the top-level shapeEditor directory, and enter the following command:

python manage.py startapp shapefiles

Once again, this creates the shapefiles application at the top level so that it is a reusable application. Move this inside the shapeEditor directory by typing this:

mv shapefiles shapeEditor

While we're at it, go into the shapeEditor/shapefiles directory and delete the admin.py and tests.py modules, as we won't need these. Then, edit the shapeEditor/settings.py module and add the following entry to the end of the INSTALLED_APPS list:

    'shapeEditor.shapefiles',

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