Cambridge Django January Meetup

Our presenter this month is Christopher Schmidt, and he will be talking about GeoDjango, a geographic web framework.

GeoDjango is a set of extensions to Django, the popular open source web content framework, allowing for easy portrayal of geospatial data inside your web portal.

GeoDjango grants spatial faculties to Django, a high level open source web framework written in Python. Django was developed out of necessity in the fast paced online-newspaper world where short turn-around times and precise web content are top priorities.

Creating HTML content dynamically with a server-side scripting language is not a novel idea but the Django creators needed to be able to create new content types rapidly, and with high standards. “For Perfectionists with Deadlines” is the crafty Django slogan that sums up this powerful flavor of web development.

The goal of GeoDjango is to make the development of GIS web applications as quick, flexible, and elegant as possible and has been dubbed the tool of choice for “(Neo) Geographers with Deadlines”.

More info about GeoDjango: http://www.geodjango....
More info about Christopher: http://crschmidt.live... and http://labs.metacarta...

If you are coming by car, you can park in the Green Street garage for $5. If coming by T, take the Red Line to Central Square and walk two blocks to 13 Magazine St. Buzz suite #2 and then walk up the stairs two flights.