location

Someone out there may be interested in the modules I have just released.

http://www.drupal.org/project/geomap
Generate Google maps from Geo Microformat data embedded in a page

http://www.drupal.org/project/geonames_cck
A CCK content type with disambiguation makeing use of the geonames api

New version here

This howto will help you create a simple method for your clients to add locative information to a travelogue. I've been fiddling with a lot of options for doing this, including using feeds with gmap macros. Though gmap macro feeds have the advantage of offering specific marker types for the different feeds, I ended up using a method which does away with that feature, but gains tremendously in useability, due to the fact that the writer doesn't need to know the exact feed syntax and gmap macro syntax to make it work.

I am trying to create a map of node locations, but only for nodes of type Event and Event with Volunteer Timeslots. I've got Location and GMap configured with the API key in all the right places. I'm using the latest dev releases of these modules.

However, when I create a new event node with location data, no geocoding occurs. If I query the location table, I can see my node with the correct location, but the latitude and longitude fields are null.

I looked at location.module in the location_nodeapi() function. Around line 842, I see:

Hej!
Hur gör man om man vill översätta Drupal till ett nytt språk?

Jag vill hjälpa ett par vänner att översätta Drupal till Kurdiska, men vet inte i vilken ände jag ska börja. jag hoppas att någon i detta forum har erfarenhet av översättning och kan tipsa mig hur jag ska börja.

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Hello, fellow Newspapers On Drupal group members, and thanks to Ken for the introduction. As he mentioned, Placeblogger, a Drupal based site I worked on -- with a LOT of help from Drupal shop Bryght -- won some Phase 2 funding from the John S and James L. Knight Foundation, which gives grants to organizations and projects that advance journalism.

The interesting thing about this funding:

1. What gets created with the funding must go into the public domain.
2. The goal of the foundation is to get tools into the hands of newspapers.

I think that's pretty exciting!

For my project, the fact that I'm on Drupal helps me meet both these goals. The project hasn't been completely nailed down yet, but it's likely that much of the funding will go towards creating Drupal modules -- and then using Placeblogger, the site, as a sort of proof-of-concept. I suspect that we'll spend a lot of time on location and Aggregator2, but at this moment we're not tied down to anything.

So help me do some thinking: if you had a little money to fund Drupal module development to aid newspapers, what would you tackle?

I would really like members of this group to consider themselves informal advisers to this project, and to benefit from it directly.

I created a custom cck field that shows links to mapping sites. It can be used with content types that have a physical address. The widget is just a checkbox, that tells if mapping links should be shown or not for this particular node.

I am definitely doing something wrong because the value of this checkbox is not saved or loaded properly from the database.

I also asked for help on the main drupal forum:
http://drupal.org/node/150266

The module is See Map:
http://drupal.org/project/see_map

I asked myself how we could use Microformats in the location module.

this is the patch which came out: Using Microformat for address output

comments and suggestions are welcome :)

Recently I've really got excited about Microformats and how they can be used to create content that can be aggregated around the internet.

Drupal really needs to support microformats, and I am currently planning and working on a module set that allows this. But I would like your input!

If you read the description of microformats, you can see they are set pieces of information based on existing formats such as vCard and iCal, but written in semantic XHTML, which can then be styled using CSS class selectors. You then have the choice to render them to the page, for example with an event. Or you can embed them in your site, such as linking to someone you have cited on your blog by using the rel tag i.e. XFN.

Hey together!

Is there any current development inprogress to integrate USER location-data in views?
The great location_views module does an excellent job regarding the integration of node-locations ... however, often you (well, at least i ;) need to integrate - and later proximity-search - the location of the user who posted the content.
Example: a Skill- or Equipmepment-Database build with CCK, location and views, where Skill- or Equipment-nodes are added by each user and listet/searched via a view. There you need to display and proximity-search for the user's location - not a node-specific location (since not a single skill or equipment has a - maybe changing! - location, but it's user).

Howdy

I finally got around to writing some simple shipping (ie. with no external apis) code for E-Commerce 4.7. I had intended to do this for a while, but was always held back by the fact that it had to involve changes to store and address modules.

I have just now had the time to do a preferred solution. It is not going into E-Commerce 4.7, because I've made extensive changes to core modules. However, if there are no major complaints, I have semi-permission from gordon to build this into head (soon to be 5.0).