Enhance Event Location Handling with Mapping, Categorization, and Extraction Improvements

[liamjdavis]

This pull request introduces several changes to enhance the handling of event locations in the access_amherst_backend project. The updates include adding a new field for mapping locations, refactoring the location categorization, and improving the event extraction and saving processes.

Enhancements to Event Location Handling:

• Database Schema Update:

  • Added a new field map_location to the Event model to store the categorized location name. [1] [2]

• Location Categorization:

  • Introduced a dictionary location_buckets to map keywords to specific locations with predefined latitude and longitude values.
  • Updated the categorize_location function to use the new dictionary structure for categorizing event locations.

• Event Extraction and Saving:

  • Modified the extract_event_details function to include the map_location field in the extracted event data.
  • Refactored the save_event_to_db function to use hardcoded latitude and longitude values from the location_buckets dictionary, with an optional random offset for better map visualization.

Code Cleanup and Refactoring:

• Removed Unused Imports:

  • Cleaned up imports in views.py to remove unused modules.

• View Function Updates:

  • Updated the home view to filter events based on the new map_location field and retrieve unique map locations for filtering. [1] [2]
  • Enhanced the map_view function to use the new map_location field and display categorized locations on the map.