django-location-field

Let users pick locations using a map widget and store its latitude and longitude.

Documentation: https://django-location-field.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ License: MIT

Status

Tests are performed with Python 2 and 3, Django 1.11 and 2, and SpatiaLite.

Features

• Support for multiple map engines, like Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Mapbox.
• Support for multiple search engines, like Google, Nominatim, Yandex and Addok.
• Works with both Spatial and non-Spatial databases.

Compatibility

• Django: 1.11, 2.2, 3.2
• Python 2.7, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11

Spatial Databases

• PostGIS
• SpatiaLite

Installation

1. Install through pip (or manually place it on your PYTHONPATH).

   pip install django-location-field

2. Add location_field.apps.DefaultConfig to INSTALLED_APPS your settings.py file

For example, PostGIS:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/postgis/

Basic usage (using Spatial Database)

from django.contrib.gis.db import models
from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point
from location_field.models.spatial import LocationField

class Place(models.Model):
    city = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    location = LocationField(based_fields=['city'], zoom=7, default=Point(1.0, 1.0))

Basic usage (without Spatial Database)

from django.db import models
from location_field.models.plain import PlainLocationField

class Place(models.Model):
    city = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    location = PlainLocationField(based_fields=['city'], zoom=7)

Screenshot

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Nick Frost has credit over the image used as logo for this project. CC BY