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GeoDjango Forms API¶
GeoDjango provides some specialized form fields and widgets in order to visually display and edit geolocalized data on a map. By default, they use OpenLayers-powered maps, with a base WMS layer provided by NASA.
Field arguments¶
In addition to the regular form field arguments, GeoDjango form fields take the following optional arguments.
Form field classes¶
Form widgets¶
GeoDjango form widgets allow you to display and edit geographic data on a
visual map.
Note that none of the currently available widgets supports 3D geometries, hence
geometry fields will fallback using a Textarea
widget for such data.
Widget attributes¶
GeoDjango widgets are template-based, so their attributes are mostly different from other Django widget attributes.
-
BaseGeometryWidget.
geom_type
¶ The OpenGIS geometry type, generally set by the form field.
-
BaseGeometryWidget.
map_srid
¶ SRID code used by the map (default is 4326).
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BaseGeometryWidget.
display_raw
¶ Boolean value specifying if a textarea input showing the serialized representation of the current geometry is visible, mainly for debugging purposes (default is
False
).
-
BaseGeometryWidget.
supports_3d
¶ Indicates if the widget supports edition of 3D data (default is
False
).
-
BaseGeometryWidget.
template_name
¶ The template used to render the map widget.
You can pass widget attributes in the same manner that for any other Django widget. For example:
from django.contrib.gis import forms
class MyGeoForm(forms.Form):
point = forms.PointField(widget=forms.OSMWidget(attrs={"display_raw": True}))
Widget classes¶
BaseGeometryWidget
-
class
BaseGeometryWidget
[source]¶ This is an abstract base widget containing the logic needed by subclasses. You cannot directly use this widget for a geometry field. Note that the rendering of GeoDjango widgets is based on a template, identified by the
template_name
class attribute.
OpenLayersWidget
-
class
OpenLayersWidget
[source]¶ This is the default widget used by all GeoDjango form fields.
template_name
isgis/openlayers.html
.OpenLayersWidget
andOSMWidget
use theol.js
file hosted on thecdn.jsdelivr.net
content-delivery network. You can subclass these widgets in order to specify your own version of theol.js
file in thejs
property of the innerMedia
class (see Assets as a static definition).
OSMWidget
-
class
OSMWidget
[source]¶ This widget uses an OpenStreetMap base layer to display geographic objects on. Attributes are:
-
template_name
¶ gis/openlayers-osm.html
-
default_lat
¶
-
default_lon
¶ The default center latitude and longitude are
47
and5
, respectively, which is a location in eastern France.
-
default_zoom
¶ The default map zoom is
12
.
The
OpenLayersWidget
note about JavaScript file hosting above also applies here. See also this FAQ answer abouthttps
access to map tiles.-