Generic Define Location Salesforce Component

[stdavis]

Recently we met with the Tanks (UST) folks. They are beginning a migration to Salesforce and were expecting to be able to use the same SF component as Spills. I explained to them that Spills had very specific requirements and that it likely wouldn't fit nicely into their solution. Their requirements are fairly simple and I believe overlap with this project:

• attempt to geocode address to get the general location, if not fall back to city, county, or state
• click on the map to define a location (they plan to continue to store their coordinates in UTM)

I believe that they said that they didn't even want the ability to input coordinates directly but I could be wrong.

I told them that we would likely be able to steal most, if not all, of the functionality from this project for theirs. I wonder if there's a way that we could create a plug-and-play component that any Salesforce person could easily implement. I'm not sure if this would be something that would come from this project or be something separate.