django-ubigeo

Overview

Ubigeo is a coding system for geographical locations used in Peru. There are two types of codes: the one used by RENIEC and the other one by INEI. This django app provides RENIEC codes, because it’s the one used in the national IDs.

Requires:

• python 3.4
• django 1.7

Installation

From PYPI:

pip install django-ubigeo

From GitHub

pip install git+git://github.com/snahor/django-ubigeo

Then add ubigeo to your INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'ubigeo',
    ...
)

To apply the migration file provided:

./manage.py migrate ubigeo

Models

The main model is Ubigeo. It has a self reference parent.

Fields

• name
• parent
• reniec RENIEC code.
• inei INEI code.

There are three more models, which are proxy.

• Department
• Province
• District

Examples

>>> district = District.objects.filter(name='SANTIAGO DE SURCO')
>>> province = district.parent
>>> print(province.pk, province.reniec, province.name)
1386 1401 LIMA
>>> department = province.parent
>>> print(department)
LIMA
>>> print(department.pk)
1385
>>> provinces = list(Province.objects.filter(parent=department))
>>> print(len(provinces))
10

What else is included?

Forms

• DepartmentForm: A simple dropdown with all the departments.
• ProvinceForm: Two dropdowns: department and province.
• UbigeoForm (alias for DistrictForm): Three dropdowns: department, province and district.

Example

from django import forms
from ubigeo.forms import UbigeoForm
from .models import MyModel


class MyForm(UbigeoForm, forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel

Endpoints

• departments/: List all the departments.
• departments/(\d+)/provinces/ List all the provinces belonging to a department. A department id is needed.
• provinces/(\d+)/districts/ List all the districts belonging to a province. A province id is needed.

Each of these endpoints returns data in JSON format with this structure:

{
  "data": [
    ...
    {
      "id": 0,
      "name": "",
      "parent_id": null
    }
    ...
  ]
}