I'm currently working on a GIS Web application to learn about working with spatial data. This post describes the first step of this project - getting a map on a webpage that utilizes geolocation when initialized. I'm using GeoDjango as a framework (though for this part of the project, it's not really necessary), and the map data comes from OpenStreetMap. I'll also be using the Leaflet API (via Django-Leaflet) to embed the map in my app and make it interactive and Mapbox tiles to make it pretty(-er).

Setting up the GeoDjango Project

Although I won't go into detail on setting up a GeoDjango project, (there's an official tutorial that will get you there better than I could), there are ...