Maps of Imaginary Lands

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Shows how to produce a working web map of an invented island with paths and landmarks using real tools: GeoDjango with PostGIS for geometry storage, Mapnik and OpenLayers for base tiles and browser rendering, plus a tile cache and WMS dev server. Claims the code is on GitHub and runs on a laptop; setup is roughly ten minutes for someone familiar with Django, longer otherwise. The result is a mashup of a raster base layer and vector overlays that actually renders and tiles correctly.

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1. 0:00Imaginary map creation
2. 3:38Django and GeoDjango
3. 7:10Mapping stack setup
4. 10:43GIS extensions overview
5. 13:12OpenLayers basics
6. 16:45Tile caching with Mapnik
7. 20:43Custom map layers
8. 22:11WMS server in GeoDjango

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