geonames

I am currently rebuilding Addresses for a 2.x release. As part of this I want to get away from using static country/province files as they easily go out of date and do not provide extensibility in data.

I am planning to overcome this hurdle by making Geonames a dependency of Addresses for 2.x. I know the licensing may not be ideal as it would require non-commercial users to provide links to Geonames, however I would rather have quality at a cost than garbage for free.

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.

I did a screencast as a little demo of what my mapping functionality is like for eurotrip.com. I basically just wanted to show you all so it may spark some ideas for improving geocoding/mapping functionalities.

Sorry for the quality, YouTube kills it pretty nicely.

Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUiserZzsM

Cheers,

Swill

ps - you can see the display aspect in action at http://www.eurotrip.com/