A Django app that helps you easily manage your own location data with autocomplete function. Connect your app to a completely normalized location database, avoid redundant Google Map API queries and save your hard earned money.
A Django app that helps you easily create and manage your own location data. Simply get a google maps api key and configure your maps directly from your django project's settings. Map comes with autocomplete functionality and saves your location to a completely normalized location database. See below for ORM diagram
Install django-location-app available on pypy and add it to your INSTALLED_APPS in your project's settings.py file
pip install django-location-app
INSTALLED_APPS = (...
'location_app',
...
)
Get your Google MAPS API key from here and add it to the settings. It is always a good idea to store the key as an environment variable and access via os.environ.get(<name>). Learn more
LOC_APP_MAPS_API_KEY = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
To see if installation was successful, add the following to your project's urls.py file
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns += [path('location/', include("location_app.urls")),]
If in dev, visit http://localhost:[Port]/location/ and you should see the following UI
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A Django app that helps you easily manage your own location data with autocomplete function. Connect your app to a completely normalized location database, avoid redundant Google Map API queries and save your hard earned money.
We found that django-location-app demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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