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I guess Geo-Django is essential to Holovaty's work in EveryBlock, perhaps that's why it got more attention.

EveryBlock doesn't use GeoDjango.

Then WHY is geodjango in Django! Why is there no useful explanation as to why so many things in Django are "Design Decision Needed", but GeoDjango got accepted with no questions.

Because it was on the http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/VersionOneFeatures "maybe" list (as in it will go in to 1.0 if someone does the work to get it ready), and someone did the work to get it ready.

As to how things got on that list, that's why Django has BDFLs. Someone has to make these decisions. If you wanted to influence those discussions, the time would have been several months ago on the django-developers list. If you want to influence future decisions, join that list and start arguing for them.

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