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 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:10 PM, DF <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/CkxAVz64tgQJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
