KML

Hi all,

The previously discussed trackfiled module (which is actually a collection) is now in the Drupal CVS. The project page is here:

http://drupal.org/project/trackfield

Keep an eye on the project page as I'll setup an official demo site shortly.

Comments are welcome. It's not particularly clean but is working for me. I'd bet there are numerous bugs as not all druapl installs will be the same. Feel free to log bugs and feature requests from the project page.

Hi all,
in a project that I'm doing right now, I needed an easy way to display custom maps in nodes and the gmap module macros just didn't cut it. I ended up creating a filter module, that allows users to insert their Google's MyMap or KML file in square brackets which will then be replaced by a google map with the kml overlayed. It's built on the great jquery jmaps extension by Tane Piper. I finished a first beta today and its working pretty well, http://playground.placematters.org/?q=node/1, you can also download the source code there.

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.

There was a discussion over on DrupalED about easy KML generation for Google Earth. My RSS search picked up this site today, which seems to have a Google Earth module in French...it looks to actually deal with accesslog site visits, rather than location data from nodes, but might be useful to look at for ideas.