Need help with the different map modules and especially Views

Hi, I'm not quite clear on the question. I'm assuming you've got a Gmap type view that shows all nodes, and you want to change it to only show nodes of type 'Crime'.

If that's the problem, then edit the view, go to the 'Filters' section, click '+' to add a new filter, choose 'Node: type' and click 'add', check the 'Crime' option in the list, then click 'Update', then save the view.

Regards, David

Thanks for trying to help but the Node and User location is NOT made by any View. When I look in the list of Views no view is made. It's really confusing to understand Views. I know they say that I should think of them as queries but I can't see the light.

Have any made a video about how to make a View using a map with markers and maybe custom markers and with a Permalink to this map? I can't figure out how to do this.

There is 2 ways to store location data, either via the user location & node location modules or via locations CCK. The latter makes a field available to views, user & node location don't.

I don't know how you can filter the types when using the user/node locations. I'd suggest try using 'location CCK' to add a field to the node type 'Crime' & combine that with 'Content profile' module to add location fields to user profiles.

Sorry it is all very confusing, but that seems to be how Gmap works at the moment.

Creating view is easy. Create new view like this.
1. goto admin/build/views/add page and type the view name and click continue, then you redirect to view edit page.
2. In the filters section click '+' and add choose Node:Type click add, then choose your content type.
3. In the fields section add the fields that you want to show in the marker content.
4. In the basic settings section, click style value, choose GMap click update, then it will ask the settings like Macro, Marker handling, Marker / fallback marker to use. If you don't want default value edit those values.
5. In the left side choose page and click add display.
6. click Page tab. Goto Page settings and add path and menu details
7. Save the view.
8. Visit the path that you specified.

Then you can see the markers related to only that content type on the map.

I still can't get it to functioning. I have a menu now called Crime but without info. :-(

I have uploaded the csv file from the video here http://www.tinemuller.dk/drupal/crime_data.csv. Will you please try to make a map/view of this on YOUR site, please? It's from the video mentioned earlier http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine. If I can get this to functioning and understand then I can start making a lot of great Google Maps API sites.

I have just discovered that if you scroll the map to San Francisco all the info is there but where should I change the coordinates for this map and the width and height if I only would have it for this Map?

http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine video is showing Drupal 4.7. I used google Maps in Drupal 6.12, but that video is explaining clearly how to create view. I did GMap intergration at my organization. I don't have personal drupal site to show you sorry :(.

You can change the settings of the map at admin/settings/gmap page. You can set map view, zoom level, width and height also there.

no need to change at admin/settings/gmap page. In the view style settings it self we can specify these gmap as a gmap macro. I don't know about drupal 4.7 but there is a setting in Drupal 6. You can create this macro using GMap Macro builder module.