Django-PgSphere

pgsphere is a django app which makes a few fields available to your models for working with pgsphere.

Currently the only fields available are

• SBoxField
• SPointField

SPointField as an inradius lookup whiuch makes cone searches possible:

MyModel.objects.find(location__inradius=((10,20), 1))

where (10,20) is the center of the seach and 1 is the radius, in degrees.

SBoxField as a contains method, which makes it possible to find objects which contain a specific point:

MyOtherModel.objects.filter(area__contains=(20,10))

Where (20,10) is the point in which you want to find MyOtherModels that have an area containing that point.

Installation

1. Install this package either using pip or setup.py
2. add pgsphere to your INSTALLED_APPS
3. Run migrations (insalls the pg_sphere postgresql extension): ./manage.py migrate
4. Use the fields in your models: from pgsphere.fields import SPointField, SBoxField

Creating indexes

To create an index on a SPointField or SBoxField run the following on your postgresql table:

CREATE INDEX myapp_myapp_myfield ON myapp_mymodel USING GIST (field_name);

Testing

To run the tests, you must have a postgresql server running with pgsphere installed. See the test_settings.py file for connection details.