Inserting HTML5 Coordinates Into Django Form

[DF]

I'm wading – carefully – into some basic geolocation using HTML5. I currently have a meta form that has space for lat and long coordinates and have found the proper code to obtain those coordinates using the Google Maps API (pretty simple stuff).

Next step: inserting those coordinates automatically into the form. The application would ideally allow users to make posts and store their coordinates for future reference and filtering (this is a big endeavor one step at a time).

I haven't yet explored mixing JavaScript with Django in this manner and was looking to see if there's a straightforward manner for doing this. Any resources, experience or expertise on this would be greatly appreciated. In the end, for context's sake, I would like users to have the ability to search for localized posts via the map and have the posts corresponding to the area display on screen.

Thanks for any insight.

[Timothy Makobu]

If I understood your question correctly, using jQuery, I would use GMAP3 http://gmap3.net/ to get the the lat and long, store those in hidden form fields, and submit that. http://www.electrictoolbox.com/jquery-get-set-form-values/

MaxMind also have a free IP-to-City database, so pygeoip.GeoIP().record_by_addr(request.META["REMOTE_ADDR"])['city'] tells you the city of the client. (they are not exactly chained like that, but you get the idea)

my Ksh 0.02

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