Snippets by tonyskyday

Google Geocode Lookup

Makes a call to Google's geocoder and returns the latitude and longitude as a string or returns an empty string. Called by the save method to save the lat and long to the db to be used when rendering maps on the frontend. Reduces the number of calls to geocoder by calling only when saving, not on every viewing of the object. Be sure to import *urllib* and the project's *settings*, and to define GOOGLE_API_KEY in settings.py. **Example:** def save(self): location = "%s+%s+%s+%s" % (self.address, self.city, self.state, self.zip_code) self.lat_long = get_lat_long(location) if not self.lat_long: location = "%s+%s+%s" % (self.city, self.state, self.zip_code) self.lat_long = get_lat_long(location) super(Foo, self).save()