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.
Also, if the user moves the map around or resizes it, I would want to refresh the list of nodes to match what is on the map... is this possible too?
Ideally the basic search would work like maps.google.com where there is just one field and it figures out if you meant a location or an establishment, but somehow I don't think that feature has been built yet ;-)
I have been learning the basics of drupal and I have someone helping me out a bit who knows some more. He has been able to create a view that returns nodes based on search criteria, but when he changes the view output to use the map, we get a fatal error (using 6.11 with the latest of everything as of yesterday, I posted this as a bug in the gmap forum...).
Anyway, I would really appreciate any tips as to the best way to accomplish the above -- are there any tutorials, documentation, links, examples, etc., that are similar to what I need to get done? I would happy be to slog through and try and implement this myself if I need to. Or if any gmap gurus are willing to help out I can give you access to the site and give you more details.
thanks in advance for any pointers