Commit ec2f0417 authored by Claude Paroz's avatar Claude Paroz
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[1.7.x] Complemented dwithin docs about using geographic geometries 

Refs #22830. Thanks django@gfairchild.com for the suggestion.
Backport of c281831a from master.
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docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt

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dwithin

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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::