The address of a place needs to be converted in lat/lon coordinates to be displayed on the map. Right now, that conversion would need to be done in the client every time a place is requested for display. It would be better if the address is converted into lat/lot coordinates that get stored in the DB as well.
There are several options for server-side conversion of address into lat/lon coordinates:
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The address of a place needs to be converted in lat/lon coordinates to be displayed on the map. Right now, that conversion would need to be done in the client every time a place is requested for display. It would be better if the address is converted into lat/lot coordinates that get stored in the DB as well.
There are several options for server-side conversion of address into lat/lon coordinates:
https://github.com/google/gdata-python-client
https://pypi.org/project/geopy/
This thread has some relevant discussion:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5807195/how-to-get-coordinates-of-address-from-python