Jacques,

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the google geocode methods to get the lat/long from an address rather then store that info in ofbiz?

Rob

On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Hi Chris,

It was a long time :o), thanks for comments

I need them to use with Google Map. To do something like 
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/marker-simple.html
you can see there map.setCenter(new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);

Hopefully I will be able to do something general enough to be reusable (should not be too hard, the tough part is already done by
Google)

Jacques

From: "Chris Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wasn't going to comment on this because I don't think I have the time available to see the discussion through to the end, but after reading David's "Data Model Changes Post", I'll toss my two cents about this.

What are you wanting to ultimately do with Lat/Long? From my experience with GeoServer earlier this year, storing Lat/Long values is rather inconvenient when doing computations and placing points (and polygons) on Maps. It was much more convenient to store these points in the manner prescribed by postgis and using the methods that are provided in those kinds of packages. Also, as far as data modeling, it's somewhat innacurate (although depending on your application, possibly within acceptable bounds) to refer to
an address as a point that has the specificity you'd be assigning.

Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,

I will need to add Latitude and Longitude fields in PostalAdress. Could this be a change commited ? I will also need to add a type PHONE_HOTLINE in ContactMechPurposeType.

Else, of course I will use

Thanks

Jacques




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