Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-05 Thread Derek
Also: just came across this mapping example, using Leaflet, and a standards-based approach (POST via WFS) to write point data from the map to a database: http://blog.georepublic.info/2012/leaflet-example-with-wfs-t/ https://github.com/Georepublic/leaflet-wfs/blob/master/index.html#L201 (POST c

Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-05 Thread Derek
Your question seems to be more about using javascript with Django; have a look at this Q&A: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5735107/basic-django-and-javascript-question There is also a lonk to a downloadable sample app. The "getting the values from the map via javascript" is a different kind o

Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-04 Thread roopasingh250
Vermon D. Cole,How to get the latitude and longitude from javascript(using javascript map) and save it to database in Django.If marker is placed in any place,it will show/display the longitude and latitude value,need to get that and save in in db.Hope this clear. Thanks On Tuesday, June 4, 2

Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-04 Thread Vernon D. Cole
Saving the values is the easy part. The format you use depends on what you want to do with them. If you are only displaying them to users, CharField might be okay. If you are going to do any processing, you should probably convert them. My storage is done like this: gpsLatitude = model

Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-04 Thread Sivaram R
Can i get any post or example related to this. Thanks On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 6:38:05 PM UTC+5:30, Doug S wrote: > > I think you'd at least want to use either a DecimalField or FloatField for > the lat & long numbers. > There's a nice GIS package in django called GeoDjango, it has lots of > b

Re: saving latitude and longitude values in django

2013-06-04 Thread Doug Snyder
I think you'd at least want to use either a DecimalField or FloatField for the lat & long numbers. There's a nice GIS package in django called GeoDjango, it has lots of built in functionality for all kinds of geographical things. This may be over kill for your application but I thought I'd let you