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11999	Support for Google Maps encoded geometries	Robert Coup	Robert Coup	"When displaying polygons and polylines with GMaps, performance can be massively improved by using encoded geometries. It would be great for GeoDjango to support this:
 * a module to encode geometries and return a dictionary, so people can JSON-encode and send to the client, embed in templates, etc.
 * use encoded geometries in !GoogleGeoAdmin

Resources:
 * http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/polylinealgorithm.html -- official docs
 * http://facstaff.unca.edu/mcmcclur/GoogleMaps/EncodePolyline/ -- detailed discussion, examples, links to implementations in various languages
 * http://wyattbaldwin.com/2007/04/19/google-maps-encoded-polylines/ -- Python implementation. GPLv3 licensed, and code isn't tidy.

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