Latitude/longitude widget for pointfield?

Question

Is there a widget for PointField as separate latitude/longitude inputs? Like SplitDateTimeWidget for DateTimeField.

Answer 1

@Ramast, approaches the same issue in a more pythonic way. I have incorporated the changes to my code, it feels great to always improve.

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This is how I managed -at last- to keep separate fields for lattitude and longitude without having to save them in the database since the values are already saved in the PointField.

The idea is :

• If we are inserting a new entry, the latitude and longitude fields will be used to set the PointField
• If we open an existing PointField entry, it will be used to provide the latitude and longitude values in the relevant FormFields.

models.py

from django.contrib.gis.db import models as geomodels


class Entry(geomodels.Model):
    point = geomodels.PointField(
        srid=4326,
        blank=True,
        )

admin.py

from myapp.forms import EntryForm
from django.contrib import admin


class EntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = EntryForm


admin.site.register(Entry, EntryAdmin)

forms.py

from django import forms
from myapp.models import Entry
from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point


class MarketEntryForm(forms.ModelForm):

    latitude = forms.FloatField(
        min_value=-90,
        max_value=90,
        required=True,
    )
    longitude = forms.FloatField(
        min_value=-180,
        max_value=180,
        required=True,
    )

    class Meta(object):
        model = MarketEntry
        exclude = []
        widgets = {'point': forms.HiddenInput()}

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        coordinates = self.initial.get('point', None)
        if isinstance(coordinates, Point):
            self.initial['longitude'], self.initial['latitude'] = coordinates.tuple

    def clean(self):
        data = super().clean()
        latitude = data.get('latitude')
        longitude = data.get('longitude')
        point = data.get('point')
        if latitude and longitude and not point:
            data['point'] = Point(longitude, latitude)
        return data