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

I don't think you have many options here. Either you use a placeholder such as (0, 0), or you encapsulate the point in an object and reference the object everywhere you need the point. That way the reference to the object could be made nullable, but the extra join would hurt performance and complicate things.