Extending the User settings - Google Maps showing the person's address and Categories
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.
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Found this site
Found this site http://www.findatutor.ca/ made with Drupal and it's looks like what I'm looking for but to my great disappointment it didn't include Google Maps.
It can't be true that no one have made such kind of sites, right?
M.v.h.
Tine Müller
http://tine_muller.homepage.dk/
http://www.findbiblioteket.dk/
Relatively easy, but not simple
Coincidently I am both the programmer for both http://www.findatutor.ca and the original programmer for the gmap module for Drupal.
To date we have not yet added and gmap capabilities to findatutor.ca. I do not believe it would be too difficult to do, it just seems more gimicky than actually useful for the user, so it hasn't been a priority.
The way it could work is each tutor listing (which is a node, not a user) would have a lat/long associated with it and then there would be a search box similar to the search box on findatutor.ca and the results could be shown graphically. This could be done with either a bit of custom programming, or some fancy stuff using the views module. I had something similar to this working for my development site http://findbiodiesel.ca/map/node which let you customize the results. However, it no longer worked when I moved everything to Drupal 6 and I haven't had time to fix it.
It can definitely be done, it is not difficult, but it takes a very good understanding of a number of different modules (gmap, location, views and others) and qutie a bit of customization withing Drupal.
Would it be possible to make
Would it be possible to make all the info about all the toilets and let different people making the info and updates INSIDE Drupal exactly as you have done on http://www.findatutor.ca/ and somehow let this info into the external database and showed INSIDE Drupal with php code just I have it here http://www.tinemuller.dk/drupal/node/715? Because at the moment I can't figure out how to do it in Drupal. Have looked here http://groups.drupal.org/node/19614 but without success.
Maybe we could get Lullabot http://www.lullabot.com/ to make a book/video about such a project with you as the instructor or Thomas Turnbull about his project http://www.opengreenmap.org/ - Which is exactly what I could use for my project. :-)
I'm sure a lot of people would LOVE this because as it is now it's TOO difficult to figure out how to use Google Maps API inside Drupal. :-(
Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks for your feedback. Will be looking at info in this group about easier ways to understand how to use Drupal and Google Maps together.
But I have found a solution until this and have imported the code from the other site/database and it's functioning beautifully http://www.tinemuller.dk/drupal/node/715 but ALL the info isn't inside Drupal to work with for further improvement but was really surprised that is could be done this way. :-)