Google Maps Suite

Customer Success & Account Management

Teams managing large contact databases who need accurate address data, fast entry, and the ability to find nearby contacts when planning visits. Autocomplete on the Contact and Lead forms eliminates manual address entry, and the auto-geocoding cron keeps coordinates current after bulk imports.

Odoo Developers & System Integrators

Developers extending Odoo with custom modules. The foundation layer is fully reusable — any model with latitude and longitude fields can gain a map view, and any Char field on any model can be enhanced with Google Places autocomplete using the no-code mapping configuration system. The GeoJSON drawing tools and custom JSONB field operators open the door to geographic data management on any custom model.

Sales & Business Development Teams

Sales reps who prospect by territory, plan customer visits, or need to quickly capture a lead spotted in the field. The suite lets them see their entire pipeline on a map, click a business to create a pre-filled lead, and use proximity search to find nearby opportunities — all without leaving Odoo.

Operations & Logistics Teams

Operations managers who need a geographic view of deliveries, project sites, or field service tasks. With delivery map views across all picking lists and project map views with status-colored markers, teams get an immediate visual picture of where work is happening and how it is progressing.

No Native Way to Draw or Store Geographic Boundaries

Sales territories, service coverage areas, delivery zones, and project site boundaries are typically managed in spreadsheets or external GIS tools, then manually translated back into Odoo fields. Google Maps Suite introduces GeoJSON-native drawing directly inside Odoo, with storage, server-side filtering, real-time measurements, and high-performance rendering — so geographic boundaries live alongside the records they describe.

Creating Records from Real-World Locations Is Cumbersome

When a field rep wants to log a prospect spotted on a street or a business noticed during a visit, the typical workflow is to switch to Google Maps, find the business, copy the details, switch back to Odoo, and type everything in. The click-to-create feature collapses this into a single map click — the name, address, phone, website, and coordinates are fetched automatically from Google and presented in a pre-populated form ready to save.

Location Data Is Trapped in Lists

A salesperson looking at 500 leads in a list view has no way to see which ones are clustered near tomorrow's customer visit, which territories are underserved, or how revenue is distributed geographically. The data exists in Odoo — the interface just doesn't expose it spatially. Google Maps Suite adds a map view to every relevant application, turning list data into an interactive geographic picture without changing how records are stored or managed.

Address Entry Is Slow and Error-Prone

Manually typing a company name, street, city, state, zip, and country into separate fields — for every new contact or lead — is both time-consuming and unreliable. Typos, inconsistent formatting, missing postal codes, and unresolved coordinates are common outcomes. The Places autocomplete engine fixes this at the source: one selection from Google's verified database fills every address field and stores the coordinates simultaneously.

Location Intelligence & Proximity Tools

• Nearby Records Search — From any marker or sidebar row, filter the map to records within a configurable radius (default 1,000 m). A rectangle overlay shows the search area; the view title updates to reflect the search context.
• Geolocation Button — Places the user's current location on the map in one click via the browser Geolocation API — useful for field teams orienting themselves relative to nearby records.
• In-Map Place Search — A Google Places search box inside the map lets users navigate to any address or landmark without leaving the view, placing a distinctive orange marker at the result.
• Box Multi-Selection — Hold Alt (or Cmd on Mac) and drag to draw a selection rectangle around multiple markers, enabling bulk archive, export, delete, or custom actions on geographically clustered records.
• Auto-Geocoding Cron — An optional scheduled job geocodes up to 500 contacts per day using Odoo's built-in geocoding service — keeping coordinate data current after bulk imports without manual effort.

Click-to-Create from Map

• Named Place Click — Clicking a Google Place on the map fetches its full details from the Places API and opens a pre-populated quick-create form for contacts or CRM leads.
• Empty Location Click — Clicking any map location that isn't a named place reverse-geocodes the coordinate via the Geocoding API and opens a form with the resolved address pre-filled.
• Duplicate Detection — The stored gplace_id field on each record prevents creating duplicates; clicking a place that already exists in Odoo opens the existing record instead.
• Visual Zoom Indicator — A button in the map's top-right corner turns green when the zoom level is sufficient for click-to-create to be active; clicking it while zoomed out auto-zooms to the threshold and pans to the nearest marker.

Geographic Drawing Tools

• Seven Drawing Modes — Point, LineString, Polygon, Rectangle, Circle, Freehand, and Select, all with keyboard shortcuts. Shapes are smoothed, editable, and stored as GeoJSON.
• Smart Rendering Engine — Automatically selects Terra Draw for editable shapes or Deck.gl GPU rendering for datasets exceeding 3,000 features or 5,000 vertices — maintaining 60fps interaction regardless of dataset size.
• Real-Time Measurements — Area and perimeter are calculated live during drawing using Turf.js, displayed in metric or imperial units and written back to a configurable Float field on save.
• GeoJSON Import / Export — Upload .geojson files from QGIS, geojson.io, or any GIS tool (up to 5 MB). Export current shapes as clean GeoJSON with internal metadata stripped. Geometry simplification via Douglas-Peucker reduces vertex count on complex imports.

Interactive Map Views

• Universal Map View Type — The google_map view works on any Odoo model with latitude and longitude fields; available across Contacts, CRM, Sales, Projects, and Inventory out of the box.
• Custom Marker Cards — Each record renders as a styled marker showing model-specific data — deal revenue and stage for CRM, order totals for Sales, project health status for Projects — directly on the map without opening the record.
• Marker Clustering — MarkerClusterer automatically groups nearby markers at low zoom levels, keeping the map readable with thousands of records. Clusters expand as users zoom in.
• Overlap Handling — Records at identical coordinates are spread apart in a circular pattern with a visual indicator; clicking a spread marker zooms in and draws a line to the actual coordinate.
• Marker Color Customization — CRM leads, Contacts, and Tasks each support per-record color pickers for visual categorization by priority, territory, stage, or any custom scheme.
• Synchronized Sidebar — A collapsible panel lists all records beside the map with model-specific fields; clicking a row highlights its marker, and clicking a marker highlights its row.
• Dark Mode Support — Map tiles, sidebar, markers, and info windows automatically adapt to Odoo's dark mode via a dedicated asset bundle stylesheet.

Google Places Autocomplete

• Two Autocomplete Modes — Places mode returns businesses and landmarks (also populating phone and website); address mode restricts suggestions to street addresses and routes for cleaner address-only fields.
• Configurable Field Mapping — The google.places.mapping system maps any Google Places API property to any Odoo field on any model — no code changes required. Supports direct, fallback, and concatenate handling for address components.
• Country-Aware Street Formatting — A per-country street format setting controls whether addresses are assembled as "Route + Number" or "Number + Route," ensuring correct formatting across all locales.
• Atomic Multi-Field Write — All mapped fields — address, geolocation, phone, website — are written to the record in a single record.update() call, preventing intermediate re-renders and partial saves.
• Built-In Mapping Test Tool — Administrators can search for any place from within the mapping configuration form and see the exact parsed values that will be written to each field, before deploying to production.