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Ah! There in the documentation, an aside to the effect that the model classes assume WSG84 unless told otherwise, so naturally they were interpreting the SRID900913 contents of the database such as -130,000 meters as being -130,000 degrees, and therefore well to the left of everything
I've told the models what the true nature of the stuff in the database is, and now it all works as expected
One of those things that makes you wonder if actually reading the documentation, rather than skimming through bits of it as and when, might have been a good idea
And, after much mucking about, I have something that renders a zoomable map, centred on the fairly small amount of data I have in the test database on this laptop, in SVG
It just shows a bunch of dots at the moment; polygons, roads, etc. will have to wait. Also, it takes several seconds for the entire thing to render, but that's mainly because the DB is running in a Vagrant virtual machine on here. Anyway, once it's working properly, the idea will be to pre-render stuff into SVG files, so it doesn't really matter if it's slow for me at the moment
Tonight's fillum was The Trials of Cate McCall (2013), in which Kate Beckinsale plays a recovering-alcoholic lawyer who reckons that despite her personal failings she's really good at what she does, though as the film mentions her involvement in a number of serious miscarriages of justice, I think she may be overestimating her abilities a little. It's a bit dreary, and I even thought about giving up on it, but I was a good way through by then. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, but it was all a bit worthy for my taste
And after that, a further episode of The West Wing, followed by the last two episode of S1 of The Good Place.
One called ten minutes late without explanation and then proceeded to quiz me for 20 minutes about some fairly obscure features and technical trivia (and ended with "will you be relocating for this contract?" and "which route will you use to drive here?"). Not impressed.
The other asked a broad but searching set of questions, was personable and explained the project he's doing in detail. I've just heard that he'd like to meet in person next week - plus it's about 15 mins from home and 50 quid a day more than the first one. Fingers crossed...
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