Django Natural Earth

For now this is only an importer for the Natural Earth data (http://www.naturalearthdata.com) It only imports the Country and County data at the moment, since I was primarily checking out if the data is accurate enough.

However, the vision would be to make an app that loads useful geodata from natural earth and geonames and throws it into a geodjango index which can be used for making more complex geoqueries.

If you are interested in this and want to help me maintain a project then write me a mail at: phil [at] maptales [dot] com

Warning: At the moment the County import throws an error. The people at Natural Earth know this already and will fix this soon.

I also looked at: http://github.com/philippWassibauer/geonames, which is a bit out of sync with geonames at the moment, but could be easily integrated into this app and has data that Natural Earth does not have, eg.: elevation data in a 50m2 precision (if I remember correctly)

Dependencies:

Geodjango

Usage:

• Install the App
• Start a Geodjango Project. Don't forget to add 'django.contrib.gis' to the installed apps and refer to the Geodjango website for the DB setup etc.
• run python manage.py ne_import_countries.py
• run python manage.py ne_import_counties.py
• go to your admin and look at the imported data

Todo:

• Finishing the rest of the commands, there is much more data to be importet
• Writing queries for the Data, eg.: in what county/country am I? How many of my geotagged items are in this county/country? Am I in an urban area? etc etc.
• Testing the queries

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