How to get a single widget to set 2 fields in Django?

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Published on 2010-05-18T11:34:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 12:30 UTC
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Hi, I got a model with 2 fields: latitude and longitude. Right now they're 2 CharFields, but I want to make a custom widget to set it in admin - was thinking about displaying Google Maps, then getting the coordinates of the marker.

But can I have 1 widget (a single map) to set 2 different fields?

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