Overriding default settings

Django-geoportal shares a few common settings between the template API and the admin API. They are defined in geoportal.utils and luckily they are easy to override from your project.

Django-geoportail checks if those settings are defined in your Django project settings, and if no value is found it provides a default value. All the settings are prefixed by GEOPORTAL_ to avoid conflicts with other apps.

If you override a setting, its value will be used in the admin, the template system and the forms library, given that you haven’t set it manually in the admin class or in the templatetag/widget options.

Settings reference

• GEOPORTAL_POINT_ZOOM: the zoom value when a single point is displayed on a map. Default: 14.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_LON: the longitude of a new map. Default: 2.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_LAT: the latitude of a new map. Default: 47.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_ZOOM: the zoom level of a new map. Default: 5.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_WIDTH: the width of a map in the admin or in a template. Default: 600.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_HEIGHT: the height of a map in the admin or in a template. Default: 400.
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_COLOR: the color of the drawing feature in the admin widget or the template map, in rrggbb format. Default: 'ee9900', a light orange (OpenLayer’s default value).
• GEOPORTAL_DEFAULT_OPACITY: the opacity of the inner part of a surface in the admin or the template maps. Default: 0.4 (OpenLayer’s default value).
• GEOPORTAL_API_KEY is a required setting and no map will show up until you set it to the key given by the IGN. See IGN’s API access.
• GEOPORTAL_MEDIA_URL points to the Geoportal Javascript library. The default value is http://api.ign.fr/geoportail/api/js/1.0/, which is the hosted version. If you want to host it yourself, see Media files.