Saving Yandex Geocoder Coordinates into a TV in Evolution CMS

If editors enter addresses manually, sooner or later somebody wants those addresses turned into map coordinates without copying and pasting latitude and longitude by hand. This pattern solves that by taking an address, sending it to the Yandex geocoder, and saving the returned point into a TV.

The original snippet used three inputs:

• &addTv for the destination TV name;
• &adress for the street or address line;
• &city for the city prefix, which improves geocoding accuracy.

A typical call looked like this:

[[!adressToPos?
  &addTv=`maps`
  &adress=`[[*Adress]]`
  &city=`[[*City]]`
]]

The snippet then requested the Yandex geocoder API, extracted the first matching point, and wrote it into the selected TV with setTVValue(). That makes the workflow editor-friendly: the content team keeps filling in addresses, while the site keeps a machine-readable coordinates field for maps, listings, and exports.

This is a good example of the Evolution way of solving problems: keep the manager input simple, enrich the data at save or render time, and store the output in a place the rest of the project can reuse.

If you adapt the pattern today, add error handling and rate-limit awareness, but the core idea remains solid.