GeoDjango

Tastypie features support for GeoDjango! Resources return and accept GeoJSON (or similarly-formatted analogs for other formats) and all spatial lookup filters are supported. Distance lookups are not yet supported.

Usage

Here’s an example geographic model for leaving notes in polygonal regions:

from django.contrib.gis import models

class GeoNote(models.Model):
    content = models.TextField()
    polys = models.MultiPolygonField(null=True, blank=True)

    objects = models.GeoManager()

To define a resource that takes advantage of the geospatial features, we use tastypie.contrib.gis.resources.ModelResource:

from tastypie.contrib.gis.resources import ModelResource
from tastypie.resources import ALL

class GeoNoteResource(ModelResource):
    class Meta:
        resource_name = 'geonotes'
        queryset = GeoNote.objects.all()

        filtering = {
            'polys': ALL,
        }

Now when we do a GET on our GeoNoteResource we get back GeoJSON in our response:

{
    "content": "My note content",
    "id": "1",
    "polys": {
        "coordinates": [[[
            [-122.511067, 37.771276], [-122.510037, 37.766390999999999],
            [-122.510037, 37.763812999999999], [-122.456822, 37.765847999999998],
            [-122.45296, 37.766458999999998], [-122.454848, 37.773989999999998],
            [-122.475362, 37.773040000000002], [-122.511067, 37.771276]
        ]]],
        "type": "MultiPolygon"
    },
    "resource_uri": "/api/v1/geonotes/1/"
}

When updating or creating new resources, simply provide GeoJSON or the GeoJSON analog for your perferred format.

Filtering

We can filter using any standard GeoDjango spatial lookup filter. Simply provide a GeoJSON (or the analog) as a GET parameter value.

Let’s find all of our GeoNote resources that contain a point inside of Golden Gate Park:

/api/v1/geonotes/?polys__contains={"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-122.475233, 37.768617]}

Returns:

{
    "meta": {
        "limit": 20, "next": null, "offset": 0, "previous": null, "total_count": 1},
    "objects": [
        {
            "content": "My note content",
            "id": "1",
            "polys": {
                "coordinates": [[[
                    [-122.511067, 37.771276], [-122.510037, 37.766390999999999],
                    [-122.510037, 37.763812999999999], [-122.456822, 37.765847999999998],
                    [-122.45296, 37.766458999999998], [-122.454848, 37.773989999999998],
                    [-122.475362, 37.773040000000002], [-122.511067, 37.771276]
                ]]],
                "type": "MultiPolygon"
            },
            "resource_uri": "/api/geonotes/1/"
        }
    ]
}

We get back the GeoNote resource defining Golden Gate Park. Awesome!