Usage

To use django-geopostcodes in a project:

import django-geopostcodes

Locality

Presently there is a single model Locality which contains localities as a flat structure as defined in the imported CSV.

The API is limited to just a custom query set manager LocalityQuerySet at this stage.

You can query for localities as follows;

from django-geopostcodes.models import Locality
from django.contrib.gis.measure import D

# Find a locality by post code
melbourne = Locality.objects.get(postcode='3000')

# Find other localities 5km from Melbourne
nearby = Locality.objects.filter(point__distance_lte=(melbourne.point, D(km=5)))

# Find a locality that matches any text
localities = Locality.objects.anything_icontains('Victoria')

# Find any locality that starts with 'aus'
within_australia = Locality.objects.anything_istartswith('aus')