I am analysing different solutions to manage the information to be included in an emergency plan in a drupal environment.
I tested "Managing News" that is pretty interesting as it geolocate RSS feeds from different sources such as Global Disaster Monitoring, or Fire Alerts, etc....
But the deployment developed by "development seeds" requires specific and high level of competences to be customized to be used as a blog and includes the drupla features to manage information that I know.
I tested another of their products "Open Atrium" that could be interesting but it does not include in the basic version any geo features.
Is there anybody that worked on a similar project that could give me some advice or suggestion: modules to be included to have the Geo RSS feeds and channels, importing polygons from arcgis to display layers, create channels displaying a set of info from RSS feed, crowdsourced information, etc.
Thank you
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importing polygons from
You don't want to do this; even if you can force Drupal to import, say, a shapefile, it'll cripple any browser you try to view a page with, and it will be impossible to do useful things with the data in Drupal.
so you say that if I have a
so you say that if I have a shape file generated from arcgis there is no way to use it?
If you load it into
If you load it into MapServer, GeoServer, Mapnik, etc., and render it as an overlay, then you can add it to a map. And if you use flash and some proprietary framework, you can use it as a vector in-browser. Otherwise, no, there is nothing to win by importing shapefiles into Drupal.
That's just not true
Actually, it's possible - and extremely useful - to import Shapefiles using the Geo module. A table is created and made available to Views. This means that you can do things like matching up your user-submitted data with spatial datasets.
http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-DrupalAsAGeoCms
I thought that I could have
I thought that I could have transformed arcgis file into a KML file and than import it into drupal.
You can technologically but
You can technologically but will not want to practically.
@Allie Thank you for the
@Allie Thank you for the suggestion.
@ tmcw thank you for the advice
kml files not working
Many kml files, that I can easily read in google earth, have no information within but they take the information from external sources. [e.g. this file http://geohub.jrc.ec.europa.eu/effis/wms/kml?layers=EFFIS:HotspotsAll].
Is there a way to allow drupal to use this type of files? and how?
I am really confused!