GeoDjango

[Samuel Brunel]

Hello,

I’m new on GeoDjango, I need to known If I can use GeoDjango as WMS ?

Best regards,

Samuel

[Tim Graham]

What's WMS? Is this package relevant https://django-wms.readthedocs.io/ ? (found with a web search for "geodjango wms")

p.s. There's a geodjango mailing list that might be more useful for future questions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geodjango

[Samuel Brunel]

Thanks a lot,

WMS is Web Map Server like MapServer (http://www.mapserver.org).

I think django-wms provides the service I need.

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[Derek]

One option is to use Geoserver on the backend to manage your spatial data (in files or databases), and then to serve this via Django.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU_Jh6RcY24

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi,

There are several options how to actually server maps.

Few simplest options are running seperate server that serves maps like
MapServer, GeoServer or Mapnik.

Of course if you want to serve maps from Django directly that maybe tricky.

That django-wms package seems to leverage MapServer mapscript to publish
maps. Not sure how mature that project is.

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[Suresh Nimbalkar]

In this example, the author is simply using GeoServer to serve WFS layer (i.e. GeoJSON layer) to Leaflet. You can serve GeoJSON layers without the need of GeoServer. Any map based on GeoJSON data takes considerable time to load as against map based on WMS (i.e. image). Hence, this example is of not much use.

[Derek]

GeoServer allows you to serve multiple formats for a WFS (not just GeoJSON) - see 
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/outputformats.html

You also can't generalise about a WFS vs a WMS in terms of time - there are many instances where its much more efficient to serve vector data.

GeoServer is a really useful and powerful tool/system for serving WMS or WFS (or other outputs)  - but, as always, it depends on your specific use case as to what technology you should choose.

[Alex Mandel]

I'll add that you could also use Geonode http://geonode.org/ which is a
Django front-end to a Geoserver instance.

I've also run Tilestache directly on GeoDjango tables stored in Postgis
to generate TMS style services.

Enjoy,
Alex

PS: GeoDjango has it's own mailing list.