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DrupalEasy Podcast 73: Lots of Options
Five Stories
- Mapping with Drupal, OpenLayers, GMap, Geofield, Leaflet, and the Geospatial Modules Assessment.
- When will Drupal 7 installs beat Drupal 6 installs?
- Drupal community metrics
- iO1 Acquires drupalmodules.com
- chx needs a break
Picks of the Week
- Mike - Entity Views Attachment by Jeff Eaton (eaton on drupal.org) - allows you to attach a view to an entity (node). Very useful for attaching OG content lists to an OG node, user’s activity to their user page, etc... Provides a new Views Display type.
- Thomas - Location CCK Migrate module by Pol Dell'Aiera (Pol on drupal.org) - migrate location data to geofield for Drupal 7
- Alan - Geocoder module by Michael Favia (michaelfavia on drupal.org), Niel Hastings (indytechcook on drupal.org), and Patrick Hayes (phayes on drupal.org) - a general geocoding API for Drupal 7
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http://barakasamsara.com/ - a beautiful map-enabled site.
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i just put together an index
i just put together an index for this very informative podcast
05:35; Drupal was one of the first CMS to integrate with Maps
13:30; TileMill
19:00; Client-side performance issues & clustering
24:35; Geocode & center map on users location by using HTML5 Geolocation
29:53; OpenLayers complexities, CTools, Display using Views, Panels or API
34:05; OpenLayers related modules: Geofield, Geocoder, ...
35:20; Geofield in Drupal 7 instead of Location module before
37:40; Recommended setup - Quickstart for storing locations and displaying them
OpenLayers + Geofield + Addressfield
GMap + Location
42:10; Leaflet (Cloudmade)
44:55; Book wrapup
46:25; Book introduction chapters + Motivation on mapping
49:25; Popular mapping blogs, cartography, best map of the year
1:06; Location CCK migrate sandbox
transforms D6 location_cck fields into D7 geofields
1:07; Geocoder, get geospatial data from address field into geofield
1:09:20; Baraka samsara films - map site use case
http://barakasamsara.com/
regards, dasjo
Thanks much for doing this!
Thanks much for doing this!
Geocoder Video
Thanks for the mention in your show notes. A few months ago, I did a session at the Drupal Indy User group about how I integrated Gecoding, Solr and Openlayers.
http://treehouseagency.com/blog/neil-hastings/2011/09/22/maps-geocoding-...
Cheers,
Neil
indytechcook