Django Google Maps form widget
We’re building a Django application at work, and I had to implement a way for a user to select a location on a map, in order to be able to save the exact coordinates and the zoom level the user chose.
I looked around to see if something similar had been developed, but I did not find anything so simple and useful as what I later developed, so for the sake of open source-ness I’m sharing it here with you.
It is implemented as a standard Django form widget so just do as any other Django widget, for example:
class PersonForm(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField() website = forms.URLField() location = forms.CharField(widget=GMapInput(attrs={'width':'600', 'height':'400'}))
Here’s the code for the GMapInput class (sorry for the docs in Spanish, but I’m in Mexico):
from django.forms.widgets import Input from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe class GMapInput(Input): """ Widget para seleccionar un punto en un mapa de Google """ def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): """ Atributos extras: - width: ancho del mapa en pixeles - height: alto del mapa en pixeles - center: latitud,longitud del punto central del mapa - zoom: zoom inicial del mapa, 1 - 17 """ final_attrs = self.build_attrs(attrs) width = final_attrs['width'] if 'width' in final_attrs else '500' height = final_attrs['height'] if 'height' in final_attrs else '300' center = final_attrs['center'] if 'center' in final_attrs else '21.983801,-100.964355' # Centro de México zoom = final_attrs['zoom'] if 'zoom' in final_attrs else '4' # Zoom amplio, se ve todo un país widget = u'''<div style="margin-left:7em; padding-left:30px;"> <input type="hidden" value="%(value)s" name="%(name)s" id="%(id)s" /> <div id="%(id)s_map" style="width: %(width)spx; height: %(height)spx"></div></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var %(id)s_map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("%(id)s_map")); %(id)s_map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl3D()); var %(id)s_marker; function %(id)s_updateField() { document.getElementById("%(id)s").value = %(id)s_marker.getLatLng().toUrlValue() + "|" + %(id)s_map.getZoom(); %(id)s_map.panTo(%(id)s_marker.getLatLng(), true); } ''' % { 'value': value, 'name': name, 'id': final_attrs['id'], 'width': width, 'height': height } if value is None or value == '': widget = widget + u''' %(id)s_map.setCenter(new GLatLng(%(center)s), %(zoom)s); var %(id)s_clickListener = GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_map, "click", function(overlay, latlng) { if(latlng) { %(id)s_marker = new GMarker(latlng, {draggable: true}); %(id)s_map.addOverlay(%(id)s_marker); %(id)s_updateField(); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_marker, "dragend", %(id)s_updateField); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_map, "zoomend", %(id)s_updateField); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_map, "dblclick", function (overlay, latlng) { %(id)s_marker.setLatLng(latlng); %(id)s_updateField(); }); GEvent.removeListener(%(id)s_clickListener); } }); </script>''' % { 'id': final_attrs['id'], 'center': center, 'zoom': zoom } else: values = value.partition('|') widget = widget + u''' %(id)s_map.setCenter(new GLatLng(%(coords)s), %(zoom)s); %(id)s_marker = new GMarker(new GLatLng(%(coords)s), {draggable: true}); %(id)s_map.addOverlay(%(id)s_marker); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_marker, "dragend", %(id)s_updateField); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_map, "zoomend", %(id)s_updateField); GEvent.addListener(%(id)s_map, "dblclick", function (overlay, latlng) { %(id)s_marker.setLatLng(latlng); %(id)s_updateField(); }); ''' % { 'id': final_attrs['id'], 'coords': values[0], 'zoom': values[2] } return mark_safe(widget)
Don’t forget to add the <script> tag linking to the Google Maps API.
It is yet far from perfect, but I still hope it helps someone out there.

This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks man,
Marcos
So have I!
Thanks