This application will perform geospatial analysis using the geometry fields of database tables. To make this possible, we have to create and populate the database tables using shapefiles and a built-in method called LayerMapping.
The completed application will need URL pattern matching to link URLs with the views that will process the requests and return the response. Templates will be used to pass processed data to the browser. Views will be written to be able to handle both POST and GET requests and to redirect to other views.
Now that GeoDjango is configured, the NBA Arenas application can be created using the Django project management script called manage.py.
The script manage.py performs a number of jobs to help set up and manage the project. For testing purposes, it can create a local web server (using runserver as the argument); it manages database schema migrations, generating tables from data models (using makemigration and migrate); it even has a...