Posted by moshe weitzman on December 24, 2006 at 3:51pm
So what are people doing with the mapping modules? I see that ymap (yahoo map) has arrived. And are the upcoming projects for location.module? Lets keep up the great momentum here.
Whats new in mapping?
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mapping an "open source" (fair trade) coffee network
Hey,
I finally finished implementing this last week:
http://www.justcoffee.net/map
I'd like to start tinkering with abegg.ch's patch (http://drupal.org/node/74920) that allows Views to unique macros, instead of always using the default gmap macro. This would be particularly useful for the regional maps (such as the one for stores and restaurants selling/serving Just Coffee).
Eventually i would like the interface to allow for a more "linear" understanding of the story of all the people who are connected through the commodity chain. Anyone have suggestions?
Finally, if anyone has had success theming the gmap pop-up windows i'd love to hear.
Thanks to you moshe and webgeer and everyone else who has put so much time into developing these modules.
Kevin
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combining with other green maps
Great map!
I'd like to see your data, and other fair trade cafe / green restaurant data produced by whoever else, all combinable into other maps... our site (SpaceShare - setting up carpools for festivals, we'll be using Drupal by the spring festival season) would be very likely to host something like this and then encourage people carpooling to festivals (who are on our site) to go to your cafes as they travel. If you make it easy to reconfigure, I expect lots of other green sites will be grabbing your cafe data and sharing.
How difficult would it be for us to read subsets of your data and aggregate it, then publish on maps for people driving to a festival? Would Just Coffee be interested? Would this be easy? Also - there are a number of green maps of San Francisco that I keep hearing about, each little group often on their own, often more green than tech-focused... is there anything I could tell them to encourage all their maps to be combinable? I'm pretty sure the Bay Localize will be a Drupal site, don't know about the rest.
Breathe & Create,
Stephen
Replacing Cars with Community
sounds good
Yeah Just Coffee would definitely be down with such a thing.
I think that map feeds would be the best way to accomplish this (see http://groups.drupal.org/node/343). I'm not sure if this would work with non-drupal generated feeds. Anyone else?
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GeoRSS
GeoRSS is the lightweight standard you'd probably want to use. It's not clear to me that the gmap feeds provide GeoRSS, but if they do, you'll have a better chance integrating with other services.
You might also want to look at:
http://geodaniel.org/
gmap and GeoRSS
I don't think the gmap.module should provide GeoRSS, this should really be the function of a separate module. (location.module, or perhaps GeoRSS module). However, gmap.module should parse the GeoRSS module. Currently it doesn't (It parses some other types). I'm hoping to get around to fixing this.
views style plugin
seems the georss should be outputted via a views style plugin. thats how the views rss feeds get outputted, for example.
Location module needs refactoring
It's the white elephant in the room. There is a need to assocate many things to locations. We probably need to have at least a "recipe" for venues (a way to select the same location more than once). The selection of locations -- either the brutal 10 billion drop down for provinces etc. -- all need work.
local video news
Hi all,
I've been lurking in this group for a bit and just wanted mention how amazing I think the geo modules are you all created. I've been working on a project for the last weeks, building what I would call a video platform for citizen reporting aka youtube mashup. It's an experiment trying to stimulate discussion, curious to see if people see any value in it. So it's about to go public, things still need to be straightened out, but I wanted to invite you to have a first look, http://icommunity.tv. Any feedback is more than welcome.
Thanks again, your work is incredible!