Mission: To discuss and document topics related to web mapping, cartography, geospatial data storage, geocoding, GIS, and any other geospatial topic as pertaining to Drupal.
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Recent Discussions, News, Events
Subscribe to geo-content?
Hello
Sorry if this has been solved / discussed elsewhere, I can't find it. Has anyone had a go at implementing a geo-version of subscribe? E.g.:
- I want to know about any 'events' posted within an x km radius of my position?
It would be a little computationally expensive, but not orribly so I don't think. Example:
http://www.assemblysys.com/dataServices/php_pointinpolygon.php
Though it would depend on how many users there were... perhaps it could be set as a cron task. (Are subscription notifications already cron tasks?)
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Could use some help working with location and gproximity. Funky issues abound!
Hey there everyone!
So I'm having some really funky issues dealing with location, and gproximity. I've actually get a few issues. Here's a list of them, and hopefully some of you locations guru's can help me out!
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Drupal Camp Chicago Invite
You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on October Friday 24 & Saturday 25 2008.
Who/Why:
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Need: general API for IP location data?
There's currently no recognized IP location solution that can be relied on by module authors. Here's a quick summary of the need and a potential approach.
Currently we have at least the following modules, each taking a different approach to using external services to determine a user's location based on IP address data:
- Ad GeoIP, uses http://www.maxmind.com data.
- GeoUser, uses MaxMind data.
- IP to Country, uses http://www.webhosting.info data.
- IP2Nation API, uses http://www.ip2nation.com data
In sum, we have various different solutions, each with their own distinct methods, each supporting only a single proprietary external data source, and each producing data in its own format.
Read moreWriting the mapstraction module - How much work?
Hi all
I would like to create a map which small scale organic food producers can use to advertise their efforts.
I would like for users to be able to submit their location, a photo and some text.
Most of what I want to do has been implemented on the excellent http://www.opengreenmap.org/
Tom who did the work on that system told me "There's a fair amount of custom coding, but most of that is just tweaks for
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GMap modules - CCk GMapAddress and route how to deal with other modules
Hello,
a while ago, i built the module CCK GMap Address: http://drupal.org/project/cck_gmapaddress. It is dependant on the GMap module. It provides a CCK Field to enter an address and display it in a GMap. Therefore GMap is used to get geodata (lon/lat) validate the address and display the GoogleMap. Data stored in the field are lon, lat, accuracy and the address string. Display of the GMap can be customized per field (e.g. for teaser,full, views display).
At the time I built the module, there wasn't any that satified my needs on such a CCK Field.
Tutorials on mapping with drupal
Hi Guys
I have been trying to build a site that takes in user data through CCk fields and then displays that information on google maps . I have been using CCK, gmap, geonames, location and views modules. I have been playing around with it for the last 2 weeks and have been unsuccessful. Which has lead me onto trying to find tutorials on how somebody would put such a website together. I have searched the drupal website, mastering drupal, lullabot, youtube just about anywhere i could think of. Please if anybody knows where i could find some information, would be greatly appreciated.
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Geo module is minimally functional in D6
I've had some time and some funding, so I've roughed in my proof of concept on a D6 version of Geo. In traditional geek style, the most informative descriptions are in my commit messages: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/147736
Basically, my goal is to demystify "geospatial", while integrating it as much as possible within Drupal. It needn't be an academic exercise to get this data working properly, so I've tried to keep things simple. The goals/implementation do the following:
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XML country information
Hi folks, I found the countries_api module the other day as a replacement for the internal ubercart 'geocoding' functionality. I'm thinking after some more research that the location or address module would be a better use of time.
However, both of these modules are incomplete when it comes to full country code information. I'm thinking it'd be a good idea to abstract out the country information that currently exists in the .inc files. Discussion a few years back on some other mailing lists made an XML file similar to the following:
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CiviMap Module
Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know that, through CTC and the help of bdragon and becw, the CiviMap Module has been released in very initial development stages.
Its simply a module that will help integrate the GMap Module and CiviCRM. CiviCRM already has some mapping features, but it is not as extensive as GMap. So one direction we are going in is to try to bring CiviCRM data towards the Drupal side and integrate it into GMap. Right now, the main feature is that this module builds KML feeds that can easily be an overlay on a GMap Macro (with the help of GMap Addons).
You can download and try it out, but it could change drastically at any moment at this point in its life, so I make no promises. What I need form you is some feedback on what you might want this module to do, and how it would most benefit the community as a whole. Thanks.
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