Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of BluePrintGISGeolocator

Timestamp:

11/12/10 06:35:38 (14 years ago)

Author:

mmatthews

Comment:

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BluePrintGISGeolocator

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 Initial work done by by Zubin Mithra (zubin71)
-Followup work done by Michael Matthews (mmatthews)
 
 A python module for a geolocator using
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 Basic Google/Yahoo webservice calls are in {{{modules/s3gis.py}}}.
 
-These have been tied to the front-end [wiki:BluePrintGISLocationsHierarchy#LocationSelector Location Selector].
+These have been tied to the front-end [wiki:BluePrintGISLocationsHierarchy#LocationSelector Location Selector] in a basic form.  Using the service requires entering part of an address in the Street Address text area, and optionally including a country in the hierarchical control, then clicking the "Geocoder Search," link.  The geocoder service will be queried, and results will be displayed to the user in a popup.  The user can select an address from the list, and the selected address will be used to populate the Street Address and zipcode in that text area, as well as the latitude and longitude lines.  See below for a list of features that should be added to this functionality.
 
 !GeoNames support needs adding (there is some !GeoNames functionality in S3GIS).
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  4. support caching
  5. administration option to selection the geocoding service (Google, Yahoo, or both).
- 6. geonames tie-ins in the location selector
+ 6. !GeoNames tie-ins in the location selector
  7. better hierarchical selector fill-in for selected results.  That is, fill in the country and province/state.  Filling in the country will require translating the two or three-letter country code to the real country name that appears int the hierarchy.
  8. Make the Google and Yahoo controller services merely wrappers around the more robust geocoding classes (per a comment in those controller).