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Auto-generating GIS models from spatial data in GeoDjango

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Jul 20, 2016
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Auto-generating GIS models from data in Django(GeoDjango) using ogrinspect . Models creation for spatial data can lengthy and tiresome. Writing models for every dataset, taking an example of 50 different datasets, is hard in terms of defining each field for a model to reflect what is in the data. To avoid all this struggle of hard coding all the fields in a given model, we use ogrinspect to auto-generate fields from a given dataset(spatial). Automate model creation in GeoDjango with available tools to make work easier. In this case, we are using PostGIS for handling spatial data in our GeoDjango project.GeoDjango comes bundled as an extension in Django to support spatial data manipulation and analysis.

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