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user2237822
user2237822

Reputation: 605

How to use Django for effective geolocation?

I want to do the following.

I want to create an app that does the following

How can I do this in the most effective way?

If the restaurant gives me their address, should I be converting that address to longitude/latitude points, and then somehow using that to get the distance from the person A current location? But how do I do this so effectively so that if there are 1000 addresses in the database, I can efficiently sort all of these addresses - nearest to person A first- without taking too much time? Thanks!

I am using django.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7022

Answers (2)

caio
caio

Reputation: 1979

Take a look at GeoDjango and PostGIS.

GeoDjango will give you the ability to store geo informations and do distance lookups.

You also could use OSMGeoAdmin or django-location-field to help you easily fill the location fields.

Upvotes: 2

ustroetz
ustroetz

Reputation: 6292

You can simply use Cloudmade's Geocoding API to locate the restaurant from the provided address.

And then you use Cloudmade's Routing API to find the distances.

Upvotes: 0

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