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| author | Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net> | 2014-06-14 20:52:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net> | 2014-06-14 20:54:48 +0200 |
| commit | ec2f0417364050aed3e8c2aa1948915d08c39514 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c7c6be552cd6bb27a77b5c1d0e2c84bdb79ae9c /docs | |
| parent | 4b922b809413eb9e9d59be0c3b41d0cedefbeb29 (diff) | |
[1.7.x] Complemented dwithin docs about using geographic geometries
Refs #22830. Thanks django@gfairchild.com for the suggestion.
Backport of c281831a5c from master.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt index 957a0497af..dd2dfe8efc 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt @@ -613,8 +613,11 @@ SpatiaLite ``Distance(poly, geom) <= 5`` dwithin ------- -Returns models where the distance to the geometry field from the -lookup geometry are within the given distance from one another. +Returns models where the distance to the geometry field from the lookup +geometry are within the given distance from one another. Note that you can only +provide :class:`~django.contrib.gis.measure.Distance` objects if the targeted +geometries are in a projected system. For geographic geometries, you should use +units of the geometry field (e.g. degrees for ``WGS84``) . Example:: |