After a lot of strugling and looking at this site http://groups.drupal.org/node/19614 and this great video http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine I have succeeded in making User location and Node location as you can see here http://www.tinemuller.dk/drupal/ but I can't figure out how to make the View from the video ONLY showing the markers from the Crime content type. Can someone help me with further tips and maybe videos, please?

What I'm going to achieve in the end is explained here http://groups.drupal.org/node/22120#comment-82526.

Hi, in the true spirit of Drupal I am looking for modules that suite my need before going off on a development spree...

1) I am using location to store information & gmap to display it. I have gotten to a point where there is too many points that are too close. I'd like to display the same information as a heatmap. Are there any drupal modules that could help me ?

For those who might be interested, I came across this really cool site that allows you to setup routes for running/cycling using google maps, along with some other nice goodes, like an elevation change graph so you can see where the hard parts are.

http://www.mapmyride.com/create_new

I've just released some "proof of concept" code at http://drupal.org/project/whereis, it's an application that runs on your Symbian phone (Nokia S60), queries your GPS for your lat/long, and sends your coordinates to Drupal using XMLRPC.

At the moment, Drupal will receive a node id, latitude and longitude, and it will simply update the location-enabled node with the new coordinates.

This is all at a very basic level at the moment, but in the future it opens up many possibilities - think Google Latitude style functionality for Drupal.

Hi,
my users dont give the full adress, they just have to enter city,postal-code and country. With this data i want to create a users-map, but there is a problem if two or more users entered the same location. Just the first of them will be shown on the map.
Is there a possibility to tell gmap&views: The first user is shown in the center and the others shown around him/her ?

I'm just learning Location and I have noticed that both core Location fields and Location CCK "can be" available to CCK.

1) Is one better to use than the other and why have two, since core Location fields are available to use in CCK (edit) and Location CCK is available via manage fields, if enabled of course

2) Can either of these be configured to also be Tax Terms?

3) Do both versions work with the "Node Locations" block?

Finish HomeValuePredictor.com which has free and fee reports on over 350,000 US micro markets. And displays maps based upon Census Block Group (and higher) boundaries to show relevent info at the local level. Ideall overlay Google maps with Dynamic heat maps, and us Amazon servers for fast delivery. Or can use SpacialKey or other software.

Contact Eddie in San Jose, CA
realvalues at Yahoo dot com

See attachments, and this should make more sense and HVP site map.

ASAP please

As part of the Geo June activity, we've started a website to aggregate the work being done: http://www.geojune.org. We're aiming to provide documentation, demos of the developing modules, tutorials, etc.

Until I figure out how to use Drupal for getting such projects done I have been playing a LOT with Drupal and also had some problems with login/logout maybe because of changing settings.php and such things but now it's back to normal - I hope.

But I have a problem with Firefox 3 - After the site has been showed I can't log out and the Node with the imported Map isn't showing. In Explorer7 and Chrome everything is functioning. Does any of you have a solution, please?

Come help us kickoff Geo June with a barbecue. Partake in grilled goods aplenty and talk about all things Geo June.

Location:
Advantage Labs
2104 Stevens Ave South
Minneapolis, MN, 55404

If you've been to the Twin Cities Users Group meetings, this is the same location. We'll be out back.

We'll provide some meat items, some veggie alt items, some beverages. Bring anything special you'd like to consume or share if you wish.

Hi there,

Recently I've been reviewing mapping modules for a NGO's Drupal6 website in Germany.

They want to be able to do something very simple: add an address (possibly via CCK Address or a simple text field) to a node (of type event, but selfmade, not via Event module). A map should show up in the full view of that node, having a marker at the place they specified.

I've been wrestling with theming the pop-up for a Gmap view. There are some tutorials, but they seem like total overkill for my problem.

I want to get some people's feedback on the ways they've gone about making small changes to their map. I think there are quite a few people out there who want to make small changes to their map.

Here are some links I've found:
This person shares my question: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20773
This seems like total overkill: http://drupal.org/node/130671
and there are no solid conclusions here: http://drupal.org/node/185617

Hi everyone!

At DrupalCON DC, we demoed some of the work we've been doing on Geo and related modules. We'd like to get these modules to a stable and dependable state so that other mapping solutions, such as GMAP and Openlayers can also be stable and well-supported.

If you had an API which fed in listings of events going on all around the country what would you do with it? And how would you deliver it to the end user? Mash it up with Google Maps? Flickr? Facebook? Twitter?

Hi everyone,

I'm creating a new website aimed at listing local advertising options for small business owners. Below, I'll give a synopsis of my intended site (mapping) features, the core drupal mapping functions that I believe I'll need, and my implementation options as I see them.

My 2 questions are:

1) Am I missing anything? (Are there any core mapping functions or implementation options that I haven't thought about or that I'm just plain wrong about?)

Are there are already modules that can extend the User settings to show the person's address on a Google Map and Categories where the person can choose what that can perform tasks? I refer, for example. Webdesign, Google Maps, Joomla, etc. etc.

It should be used for something like this map http://www.findbiblioteket.dk/radius2/ I made just showing above categories and the benefit of using Drupal would be that each person can enter and update their own information without my to do so.

/Tine

Hi folks,

Gmap + Location + views

How to reference locations (considering maybe a select box) to node? Which means when you create node just select a location to associate.
I was trying this with User reference with views. But it gives me only one result. Here's the situation:

If i limit the user in the views filter like 'Current user', The result will be only one location from the user. why does that?
If i don't limit user in the views filter it just give me all user's location in the website(but still only one per user)?

Hi folks,

I was working a project which is based on Gmap and Location module. And it is working in progress. After i did pretty much research recently. I knows those module more and more. Originally concept of this business is a shop. User can be buyer and seller and seller can post products to sell. My understanding about these modules is one location per user and all products(node) belongs to this user. But now i found the location module supported multiple locations for each user(It might be a feature in the future or pretty soon).

Hi all

Dying to find a solution to a few of these problems. I've just created a Gmap + Location setup. I now have 'User Locations'. And 'Node Locations' on the left - each showing all the contributed node locations.

1) However when I view 'Node Locations', because I've added a node location already (a content type); it isn't displaying my Center point that I set in 'Gmap Location' under 'Site Configuration' correctly. It sort of shifts the map a bit to the right so that the 1 node location I added has its marker more toward the center of the map.

Does any one know of way to produce a map with dynamic text based markers (labeled markers)?

Here is an example of a static map that show what I would like to achieve.

That way people can just look at the map and not have to individually click on each marker to see the contents.

Thanks for your help,
-Glenn

I have used location and gmap modules to produce a mapping site before, but all the markers are all the same.

Is such a book not been writen yet and if not have any of you plans on writing such?

I think we are many out there who have difficulties using the Modules for making maps.

I have made a lot of Google Maps API sites outside Drupal but have BIG problems understanding how to make it happen in Drupal. And the info I have found until now is quite confusing.

I have plans on making such a project like this http://www.opengreenmap.org/ but with official toilets from the hole World, starting with Denmark where I live and give the city councils the opportunity to make this info and update.

I'm working on a website for the greater good that has a collection of nodes with location information.

I would the user to be able to search and have the results be on the map:
1. Location (e.g. zipcode, city/state, etc.)
2. Establishment (e.g. part of a name of a node, or possibly other fields, but let's get the name down first)

Once this is working a 3rd section will be an Advanced search that allows the user to select specific attributes to filter the nodes that are returned.

I just released an inital Beta of IP 2 Locale. I'd love to hear any feedback you may have...

The other day I was looking through the CVS messages, as I have been actively developing the OpenLayers Module, and noticed the Mapping Kit Module. This was just after having a conversation with Tom (tmcw) about the Mapstraction Library and Module and about how we could possibly create a more single solution in Drupal just for the presentation side of Drupal as a GeoCMS. I also recently discovered BDragon's Vision which is a really great view of what needs to happen for Drupal to become a GeoCMS.

So, to help point out where we are at, hear are the following Drupal mapping modules (that I know about and adding as I find more); notice that this does not include the non-mapping GIS modules:

• Gmap (and GMap Addons)
• OpenLayers
• Nice Maps
• Mapstraction
• Mapping Kit
• GeoBrowser
• TrackField
• Simplest GMap
• GMap Geo
• Google Maps Tools

I am definitely not here to argue or discuss which ones are better. I would like to discuss how most of them serve similar purposes and have similar coding paradigms, and maybe we want to discuss how to have a more centralized, encompassing solution in Drupal.

But this isn't that discussion; this is just seeing if anyone is out there and wants to have that discussion. So, here are my questions to the readers of this post, that are specifically the developers of these modules or someone that is interested in this discussion and contributing:

1. Did you get this?
   First, it's important to know if if this a good channel to go down. If not, then I'll just try contacting everyone individually, or posting up to Drupal Planet.
2. Do you think we should create a more centralized solution for Drupal, or should we go down the more capitalist approach and let the best module win?
   Bdragon's vision is awesome, but we haven't really had a concentrated effort to realize it.

I have a node type with Location enabled on it. Let's call this node type a Place. My users will be able to create Places (for example) they visited. My problem is how to determine if two places are the same by the location information entered by the users. Generally the users will click on a GMap to indicate where the place is. Depending on how precise they are and what level of zoom they used, the points on the map they clicked may be many kilometers apart.

There are so many geographical groups now that it's difficult to find out if there's a group for an area you're interested in. I suggest:

• splitting up the category geographical into subcategories for continents and countries
• show the group category on the main group page (because mistakes happen, and it's easier to catch them if a group's current category is visible to the people using the group)

OpenLayers API

This provides the heavy lifting of rendering an OpenLayers map. It is based on creating a descriptive array in PHP for a map, then using that array in Javascript to build the map object. This way, modules can render maps with little to no Javascript, and with very little PHP.

• Defaults and settings forms
• WMS administration (See #425930: Abstracting WMS Functionality)
• Extensible API for custom controls.
• Extensible API for layers

Contributed Modules

OpenLayers CCK Module

Hello,
I trying to figure out if it is possible to use remote call back on marker info windows when using GMap with Views. Should mention I am using Drupal 5 and latest version

I know how the remote call back works, set "rmtcallback" in the map settings. I see this can be done with views by creating the macro in the view argument handling code. But then you need to set the "rmt" setting for each marker. This is done in the user and node pages that come with Gmap.

Hello all.

Is it possible just to add a map to a user page?

Even after 2 years of struggling, I still feel like a newbie, as I say in all my posts, and I have been trying for myself for some weeks now (few spare hours a week) and I am about to give up on this AND on Drupal.
How come it is not possible to find a step by step explanation or even any reference to something essential and apparently simple like this?
For the moment I have the impression that users dispose of a map only for INPUT but NOT for OUTPUT????

Hi
I can not find a way to theme the bubble in 6.x version, I have found few posts about it but no success there
i have tried this

am i missing something here ?

Fantastic to see the Geo module finally starting to take off!

In my experience, Drupal projects often want to capture geographic point data which relates to a textual form of that point. I will use the example of a favourite camping site. The address may be something like:

123 High Rd,
Green Mountain,
QLD, Australia

That could be captured in a CCK textfield no probs. Now, we can use the geocoder module to autopopulate a Geo CCK field with WKT data when the node is saved. However, this presents two problems:

Let's do GIS together!

So, Drupal as GIS? Well, Drupal is already being used for GIS; but Drupal is not a GIS. There are many modules addressing a lot of aspects of GIS. But, I feel like we end up duplicating work here and there.

For instance, http://groups.drupal.org/node/20468 is great. But, its kind of funny because bdragon and I just discussed doing this with the openlayers module yesterday, literally. I also realized that I wanted to maybe parse some WMS data and nicemaps was already doing that, but didn't want to have it as a dependency, necessarily.

Hi Everyone,

I've developed a module called Geo GUI (http://drupal.org/project/geo_gui). You can download from csv from /contributions/modules/geo_gui.

It uses OpenLayers so that you can draw on a map for inputting polygon, line, and point information in the geo CCK fields. So instead of using WKT to input complex geometries, we can simply draw.

I would love some feedback!

Here's my initial take on an outline for documentation for the Geo module. For the most part, I broke up the docs into three main areas. The "What is the Geo module?" section is meant to be a primer that provides a base level of knowledge for users new to GIS terminology. The "Module Requirements" section is pretty self-explanatory, but since it took me more than a few minutes to realize I needed to install the php_zip extension in order to use the Geo Data module I thought it might be good to document it. The "Functionality" section will obviously be the main part of the docs.

Summary

These are very rough notes from tom_o_t's session at DrupalCampNYC6 on how to use Drupal for mapping. Feel free to add screenshots, configuration options, etc, and we can contribute back to the GMap documentation page.

Other Resources

Sean Effel has put together a video at http://www.drupaltherapy.com/gmap

Outcomes

To create a site that displays users or nodes on a map with different colors of pins for different content types or taxonomies - some examples include:

Hi

Im trying to build a compact "search by location" block that contains two fields:
1. key word - node's title / body / taxonomy / CCK
2. location - single text field for location like "Italy" or "5th road New York US"

I'm looking for the best approch for this perpose, any idaes?
Dose someone know of any project like this out there

Two years ago I created a module to increase the relevance of my webistes/pages for search engines, using SEO techniques.

This module doesn't increase the general relevance, but increases the relevance in a particular country without changing the relevance elsewhere. For example, if you have Spanish schools in Canada and your clients are Canadian you have to specify some code in the header of your page such as “en-ca”.

Has anyone tried to incorporate the UMapper API within Drupal?

UMapper: http://www.umapper.com/
Wordpress Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/umapper/

.Sam.

Hello Community,

for a Community i need a Formular for saving Places.

My Idea, the User goes to a Node (create with CCK). In this Node, the User can write in Textfield the Adress, the Map goes to this Point OR, the User can with Mousecursor pointing the Place with Marker. This Marker will save with Latitude, Longitude in Table. With this two Informations i will save extra Informations e.G. parking area, ground.

I have a project that needs to describe geographic "regions" (shape) and map them. I like the ability of the location module to do exactly that for a "point" (latitude/longitude). Is there a module that does the same thing for a region?

Could that be built on top of location?

Hello.
I've been toying around with the nicemap module and I dont seem to have the faintest idea how it works. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks.,

I've set up location module and gmap module for a nonprofit I'm helping out (docomomo-us.org) to map endangered works of modern architecture. We're really grateful for all the hard work that went into these.

I'm wondering if its possible to enable street views somehow? We'd love it to be an option so that if a user wants to see a building in its context they can.

If we can't display street views on our site's pages, maybe we could pass off to Google Maps's main Web site to do so? I have no idea how to do this using the current framework.

I have users in one side and events and links in the other.

I do no expect Users having trouble finding their location in a map. ;)

However, as an administrator, when I add locations for events or other links, since I do not always know where those places are located, I ended up having my editing page and a google maps page open at the same time and going back and forth between them in order to add a marker.

I figure out a shorcut for this problem until geocoding finally works (perhaps I am doing something wrong, but I do not see geolocation working yet).

I'm hoping to use nicemap, or if I absolutely have to, gmap in order to display information from my activity feed. That is, people do something on my site, if i know their location, the map updates immediately, live. No reloading.

Where can I find information on doing something like this?

http://www.thisnext.com/activity/map/

I really hate how gmap moves and scrolls and generally looks clunky. nicemap is much nicer. just don't know if this is possible with nicemap!

Hello

I want to disable the mouse zoom option ,
I went to gmap admin page and checked "nomousezoom : Disable mousezoom" (Disable using the scroll wheel to zoom the map.) but this does not seems to be working : the mouse wheel is allways working

any Ideas ?

Found this review of Location module:

http://civicactions.com/blog/Location_Package_Drupal_6

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Hi
Is there a way to control the appearance of markers when the map is zoomed out ?
I want to be able to show markers even if the map is zoomed out to the whole world (zoom 2) ,
now I can only see the markers if i zoom in 2 times

any ideas ?

Congratulations to Bdragon, Bec, and all the volunteer contributors who helped push out the new, officially-supported releases of the Location (v3) and Gmap (v1) modules. Hundreds of hours of work have gone into these modules since we adopted them, and we're very proud of the new and refined features.

Location and Gmap can be combined to associate physical, real-world locations with Drupal nodes and users, as well as displaying interactive maps of that content.