Using Django to create a point GeoJSON feature from the centroid of a polygon
A practical example showing how to use geoDjango geospatial functions to create the centroid of a polygon, returning a GeoJSON dataset that includes all the attributes of the original polygon feature excluding the original geometry.
Why exclude the original geometry you are probably asking yourself? Simple, the response already will include each individual geometry representing the original so we do not want it to be duplicated in the resonse.
Libraries used:
You will need to hook up your Django URLs to actually use this new view function. You will only need to pass in a unique_id value to return a single point centroid from your input polygon feature.
Why exclude the original geometry you are probably asking yourself? Simple, the response already will include each individual geometry representing the original so we do not want it to be duplicated in the resonse.
Libraries used:
- Django Rest Framework to server up the response but you could of course use simple the Django response as well.
- Python GeoJSON to create the features.
How to use it:
You will need to hook up your Django URLs to actually use this new view function. You will only need to pass in a unique_id value to return a single point centroid from your input polygon feature.
url(r'^getcenter/(?P<unique_id>[0-9]+/$', get_room_center, name='centroid'),
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