A reusable Django app for working with Texas legislative districts.
Add tx_lege_districts to your INSTALLED_APPS. Then configure a GIS-enabled
database and load the districts you want from a fixture:
python manage.py loaddata districts_2006
Hookup the urls in the tx_lege_districts namespace:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url('^lege\-districts/', include('tx_lege_districts.urls',
namespace='tx_lege_districts')),
)
Districts provide a representative property that is None by default.
The representative can be handled in your own project using a a configurable backend:
# myapp/backends.py
class MyBackend(object):
def get_representative(self, district):
return MyRepresentativeModel.objects.get_for_district(district)
# settings.py
TX_REPRESENTATIVE_BACKENDS = ['myapp.backends.MyBackend']
Set the DATABASE_URL environment variable. Example:
export DATABASE_URL=postgis:///tx_lege_districts
psql template1
CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
Just use DROP EXTENSION if you want to go back.
python runtests.py