geo

Someone out there may be interested in the modules I have just released.

http://www.drupal.org/project/geomap
Generate Google maps from Geo Microformat data embedded in a page

http://www.drupal.org/project/geonames_cck
A CCK content type with disambiguation makeing use of the geonames api

am looking for a drupal developer to work on social networking project centered on geo-spatial and interest data. I broke-down the project in several phases, phases 1 being very basic. So if you agree with this approach and you are an expert with drupal, php, google map's api, the gmap module, the categories module (CCK) and how it can apply to profiles, please do read on. Lastly, it would help tremendously if you would share with me any implementation examples similar to the specs below.

So here's a preview of the high-level functionality I need developed/implemented for Phase 1:

As discussed in IRC, September 10, 2007

• A. Geocoding / Address Storage
• B. Geospatial
• C. Data Entry
• D. Data Searching
• E. Data Visualization
• F. GeoRSS / KML / GML
• G. Web Feature Service

I asked myself how we could use Microformats in the location module.

this is the patch which came out: Using Microformat for address output

comments and suggestions are welcome :)

I've been dabbling in getting a kml module together for Drupal for a while and have recently got it to a state where it's useful out of the box and still has good potential for future development.

The Drupal KML module currently lets you add a 'KML' link to the bottom of all location-enabled nodes (requires location.module), which then fires up Google Earth for you. The single node KML link is the most obvious functionality in the module, but it also allows you to view all nodes, or all nodes tagged with a certain term. There is functionality also to create network links for any of these feeds, giving you a continually up-to-date set of nodes from your site in Google Earth.

Since we missed out on seeing everyone last month, we've decided to up the ante for our next meetup. This time around, on July 26 at 7pm, Development Seed has graciously offered to buy the first round of beers at Bus Boys and Poets up on U street. Not only that, but they plan to talk about how