Django 1.0 GIS Module (aka GeoDjango) and MySQL

[jlb...@gmail.com]

Does anyone know if the layermapping utility of the django gis module
supports a MySQL database backend, I keep getting error messages about
not being able to import GeometryColumns from
django.contrib.gis.models?

[Justin Bronn]

No, it does not support MySQL.

More specifically, MySQL does not conform to the OGC specification
[1], and does not implement the `geometry_columns` and
`spatial_ref_sys` tables. [2]

Regards,
-Justin

[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs
[2] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-gis-conformance-and-compatibility.html