Vancouver Drupal User's Group: Mapping in Drupal 7 with OpenLayers

Mapping in Drupal 7 -- Create interesting, attractive location-based maps, configure a map to use different layers/tilesets (even add your own!), use maps to input location-based data, and create maps in Views that show multiple location markers with themeable pop-up dialogues and links to content pages. Toolset: OpenLayers, Views and the Geofield CCK field.

Renee is a CMS Developer and Webmaster at UBC's Department of Computer Science, and co-owner of Panic Stations Media, a tiny multimedia consulting and development shop. She has spent over six years designing and deploying Drupal sites for mid-size departments and businesses, and has spent ten years working as a web developer in the education and non-profit sector. This May she spent a month in Botswana, Africa, deploying a Drupal site on behalf of a support organization for kids with HIV/AIDS; as part of that project, she implemented OpenLayers so that geographical info could be easily added by novice users as new club locations were added.

Lightning Talks

Attendees are invited to share their experience by giving a 2 to 4 minute presentation on any topic of interest to the Drupal community. If you want to use a laptop to show a website or control panel please be sure you have the necessary cable (vga) to connect to an overhead projector.

Date: September 27, 2012 - 6:30pm
Location: The Network Hub, 3rd Floor, 422 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC

Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome.

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterward.

RSVP: Please RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Drupal-Users-Group/events/80096872/

Sponsors

This meetup is sponsored by The Jibe, a Vancouver Drupal eCommerce web design agency.