Jul 30

Swoop Travel Live!

Foundry's first GeoDjango site, Swoop Travel, has gone live.

I'm pleased to announce that Foundry's first web site has gone live: Swoop Travel.

Swoop Travel is a GeoDjango site using PostgreSQL and PostGIS, although very little GIS functionality is in the public-facing site at the moment - it's mainly in the backend.

We built this from scratch in about a month (while juggling other projects too!) are are pretty pleased with how it's turned out. This is just the first iteration and we're looking forward to expanding the site.

GeoDjango is pretty awesome. As we work on the site and get more experience, I'll post some more about some of the innards: there's quite a lot of interesting stuff in the backend, particularly admin customisations like filtering dropdowns based on landmarks within geographic regions, and so on. I'll also try to talk about the production server configuration, as GeoDjango needs a slightly different WSGI configuration to the standard run-of-the-mill Django site.

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