[Fixed]-Geo Django get cities from latitude and longitude

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You have several solutions to do this:

  1. Create another model City 

    from django.contrib.gis.db import models
class City(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_lenght=255)
    geometry = models.MultiPolygonField()

    objects = models.GeoManager()

Then you can find the name of the city containing your location with:

    geomodel = GeoModel(...)
    city = City.objects.get(geometry__contains=geomodel.location)
    city_name = city.name

Depending on the country/region you are interested in, you may find city geometries to fill the City table in OpenData (eg http://www.gadm.org/country (not tested but seems to propose open shapefiles))

  1. Use an inverse geocoder. Google can provide such service or look at http://www.geonames.org/export/reverse-geocoding.html if something can match your needs.
👤stellasia

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