Django: Geocoding an address on form submission?
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Trying to wrap my head around django forms and the django way of doing things. I want to create a basic web form that allows a user to input an address and have that address geocoded and saved to a database.
I created a Location model:
class Location(models.Model):
address = models.CharField(max_length=200)
city = models.CharField(max_length=100)
state = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
postal_code = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
country = models.CharField(max_length=100)
latitude = models.DecimalField(max_digits=18, decimal_places=10, null=True)
longitude = models.DecimalField(max_digits=18, decimal_places=10, null=True)
And defined a form:
class LocationForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = models.Location
exclude = ('latitude','longitude')
In my view I'm using form.save() to save the form. This works and saves an address to the database.
I created a module to geocode an address. I'm not sure what the django way of doing things is, but I guess in my view, before I save the form, I need to geocode the address and set the lat and long. How do I set the latitude and longitude before saving?
