I want to store (City, Country) pairs in my models as a field. Is GeoDjango an overkill for my use case?

[John Reese]

I want to store (City, Country) pairs in my models as a field. I want to do something like this (the location field). I will later preform search on the (City, Country) pairs in my models.

Is GeoDjango an overkill for my use case? If yes, what do you suggest for me to use?

[Claude Paroz]

Le 17.09.20 à 10:55, John Reese a écrit :

> I want to store (City, Country) pairs in my models as a field. I want to

> do something like this <https://stackoverflow.com/jobs> (the location

> field). I will later preform search on the (City, Country) pairs in my
> models.
>

> *Is GeoDjango an overkill for my use case? If yes, what do you suggest
> for me to use?*
No, it's not overkill. You will need a GIS backend to query with a
"within distance" loookup.

Claude
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www.2xlibre.net

[John Reese]

Hey Claude,

thank you for responding. I think I may not have expressed my use case in the best way. What I want the user to be able to do is:

• enter their city and country ((City, Country) pair) upon registration
• modify their city and country after they have registered
• search for jobs in a particular (City, Country) pair - I just want to display jobs in that (City, Country) pair, not other jobs
  

From what I listed above, I don't see the need to do "within distance" loookups, as you have suggested.

What I was aiming at when I linked StackOverflow Jobs was that when you start typing in the name of a city, you have a drop-down list with all the cities in the world that have those characters in their name and I don't know how I would achieve that.

Do you still think I need to use GeoDjango or is there an easier way to cover my use case?

[Claude Paroz]

Dear John,

I guess your explanation is forming the answer :-) GeoDjango is a Django
extension to help manage geometric objects. As you don't seem to need
those, then no, GeoDjango will not help you.
You will need to find a source with all cities of all countries you are
interested in, but that is not a Django-related issue per se.

Claude

Le 17.09.20 à 17:09, John Reese a écrit :

> Hey Claude,
>
> thank you for responding. I think I may not have expressed my use case
> in the best way. What I want the user to be able to do is:
>

> * enter their city and country ((City, Country) pair) upon registration
> * modify their city and country after they have registered
> * search for jobs in a particular (City, Country) pair - I just want

> to display jobs in that (City, Country) pair, not other jobs
>
> From what I listed above, I don't see the need to do "within distance"
> loookups, as you have suggested.
>
> What I was aiming at when I linked StackOverflow Jobs

> <https://stackoverflow.com/jobs> was that when you start typing in the

> name of a city, you have a drop-down list with all the cities in the
> world that have those characters in their name and I don't know how I
> would achieve that.
>

> *Do you still think I need to use GeoDjango or is there an easier way to
> cover my use case?*

>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 2:48:47 PM UTC+2 Claude wrote:
>
> Le 17.09.20 à 10:55, John Reese a écrit :
> > I want to store (City, Country) pairs in my models as a field. I
> want to
> > do something like this <https://stackoverflow.com/jobs> (the location
> > field). I will later preform search on the (City, Country) pairs
> in my
> > models.
> >
> > *Is GeoDjango an overkill for my use case? If yes, what do you
> suggest
> > for me to use?*
> No, it's not overkill. You will need a GIS backend to query with a
> "within distance" loookup.
>
> Claude
> --

> www.2xlibre.net <http://www.2xlibre.net>