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5472	Implement Individual Map Widgets for Geometry Fields	Paul Smith	Claude Paroz	"The form provided by !GeoDjango for geometry fields (`django.contrib.gis.forms.fields.GeometryField`) is just a simple text box that accepts textual representations of geometries.  The way admin currently generates its map forms is functional, but not really suited for general-purpose use.  In particular, the map widget is generated dynamically by `GeoModelAdmin.get_map_widget()`.  For better API consistency with the rest of Django, there should be reusable map editing widgets.

Because the geographic admin already uses [http://openlayers.org/ OpenLayers], the default widgets should be written using it.  It should be general enough to make supporting alternative geometry frameworks possible, however, !OpenLayers support is the priority.

Doing this will hopefully make fixing related tickets, like #9806 and #11002,  easier."	New feature	closed	GIS	dev	Normal	fixed	openlayers javascript map maps mapping widget forms	chazen@… dbsgeo@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0