woutor / django-geonames

Django app for the http://www.geonames.org/ data

=============== django-geonames

django-geonames is a Django app to easily include in your project the geographic data available in http://www.geonames.org It also provides a management command to import this data.

Quick start

• Enable Gis in your DB https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/ In case you're using Postgresql as your DB, in the folder 'scripts' is available a script to set up PostGis.

• Add "geonames" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      ...
      'geonames',
  )
  

• Run python manage.py migrate geonames to create the geonames models.

• Run python manage.py load_geonames to import the data from geonames.org (This process can take long).