GeoDjango & MySQL: points can't be NULL, what other “empty” value should I use?

Question

I have this Django model:

from django.contrib.gis.db import models

class Event(models.Model):
    address = models.TextField()
    point = models.PointField         


        

Answer 1

A quick idea would be to have another boolean field that you mark as true/false when you have an actual point. It would make querying easy because you could add the boolean field to the where clause.

class Event(models.Model):
    ...
    has_point = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    point = models.PointField('coordinates', ...)

Event.objects.filter(has_point=True)...#whatever else you need when handling location