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
Drupal Mapping & GIS Presentations in Szeged
Hi everyone,
Bec and Bdragon submitted proposals for two Mapping/GIS events at DrupalCon Szeged - please head on over and vote!
A Roadmap for Mapping: GIS on Drupal in 2008 and Beyond! will cover the current status of GIS efforts on Drupal and the immediate plans for the most common modules: Location, Gmap, and the soon-to-be-released Geo module. This will be very similar to the well-received GIS overview session they presented in Boston.
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Seeking guidance on how to add users location in Drupal 6
Hi,
I'm trying to use Drupal 6 as back-end for a map web application that show "ubuntu supporters" in Belgium (see http://map.ubuntu-be.org) and need guidance. The plan is to store user location and their commitments in Drupal. Then the existing JavaScript could be refactored to fetch the data from Drupal instead of the current had-hoc backend. After some research, it seems that the best solution to add (optional) information to user profile is to the Content Profile to create a "Profile node" for volunteering users. This node would have to provides a means to store user location.
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Google Earth in browser
I just found this.... Thought you might be interested...
http://code.google.com/apis/earth/
The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.
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Clickable Polygons
Anyone had any luck adding clickable polygons to a Google map in Drupal?
Use case:
Create a node type that allows you to enter the boundaries of a polygon. Then, display those polygons a Google map, such that someone can click on a polygon to be taken to a specific node.
Thanks,
S
Open Geocoding
Does anyone know anything about http://www.opengeocoding.org ?
Read morehow to filled marker or etc
http://alanpalazzolo.com/story/drupal-5-custom-gmap-node?destination=nod...
I am fallowing this.. But I have no idea how to filled the data from create a gmap macro.
"The Select Lists should be filled appropriately from the GMap Macro Creator page. Hint: changes some values and note the macro at the bottom"
plz give me a tip to filled data from macro creator page..
ps) Im not native speaker, plz understand me.
Read moreDatabase Driven Lines
I'm looking for module suggestions for creating google map LINES that pulls its lon/lats from a database.
Eventually I would like to associate this with a user. Then I would like them to have a date selector, so they can get a range of data.
Any suggestions?
G
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Location Views - Clickable markers?
Re. Location Views - As far as I can see, there's nowhere that you can configure what happens if a user clicks on one of the markers displayed on the map. Has anybody implemented this, and if so can you give me a few pointers? I don't mind doing some coding, just where to start.
Also, is there anyway of controlling which marker (color etc.) gets displayed other than by using the taxonomy marker feature. That works, but I'd like different views and different content types to use different rules for marker types/colors. Any ideas?
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The State of Geospatial in Drupal
This is a paragraphization of a Drupal Dojo talk given by Bdragon and becw on June 16, 2008.
Current state of things
- The immediate goal is straightforward point-based mapping for Drupal sites.
- GMap and Location do not have stable Drupal 5 versions, or any Drupal 6 versions.
- However, both GMap and Location are under active development by Bdragon.
- GMap is *just* about ready for a 1.0 release on Drupal 5; it just needs to be banged on some more.
- Location is well under way for a 3.0 release for Drupal 5; it has been tested internally, and is close to usable for most people who do not need the proximity searching functionality.
- The basic plan of attack is to get GMap and Location out for Drupal 5, poste haste, and then do direct Drupal 6 ports, and *only* then start talking about new features and location refactoring.
Location Selector
Hi guys!
I'm in need of the perfect location selector to efficiently geocode lots of my data. Are any of you guys working on something that might be useful? We should be able to 1. Input place names 2. Input addresses 3. Place pin on map -- to get lat/long out at the other end.
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