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GMap + Location Screencast

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Drupal can store and display geographic information through the use of the contributed modules called GMap and Location, part of the geocoding module stack known as Mapadelic. Together they form the foundation of building rich maps using Google's map service.

This screencast covers the basic setup required to produce your first Google mapped nodes and display all your nodes on one big map.

Prior experience with Drupal 6 core will help you follow along with this lesson, especially in the area of enabling and configuring modules and customizing content types.

Posted April 28, 2009 - 9:08am by Sean

Comments

by Anonymous - Jan 31 2012 - 11:15pm

Really like the video. Would you mind make a video about Facebook module. Specially check in process. Thank you.

by Anonymous - Nov 1 2011 - 12:55am

Its really nice and helpfull for all drupal developer

by Anonymous - Nov 11 2011 - 12:57pm

Great screencast!!!
I have a Garland based theme and followed all the step in your tutorial - added the location info to a Page node. When I display the node the textual GMap info is displayed. There is a link to Google Maps page. My understanding that the GMap info is inserted into $content.
I also see the Location Map block on the Blocks screen. I created a region called 'location_map', associated the block with that region and add
<?php print $location_map ?> to page.tpl.php template. However, this print statement doesn't render anything. Any suggestions what could be going wrong?
Thanks loads in advance.
Alex S.

by Anonymous - Dec 29 2011 - 10:36am

@Alex I am having the same problem. did you find a solution to this. ? I am suing d7

by Anonymous - Nov 9 2011 - 1:24pm

Thanks.

Really very much helpfull..

by Anonymous - Oct 30 2011 - 5:14pm

Thanks a lot that was helpful.
But when I applied this to my content type, the generated google map didn't show the marker on it.
any idea why?

by Anonymous - Oct 6 2011 - 4:57am

thank you very much for the wonderful tutorial, but I have a silly question;-) How do I change the order, the address and everything else under the map .... I will be grateful for your help:)
Paul

by Anonymous - Oct 5 2011 - 4:45pm

Thanks.

by Anonymous - Sep 12 2011 - 4:02pm

Thanks Great tutorial.

But i want something more. I working on job site and i need it to add on company registration page but with login it is not working what should i do?????

by Anonymous - Aug 28 2011 - 12:44am

Hi Sean,

You are great at keeping things simple, and still getting to the point.
Very illustrative - thank you very much.

Søren B. Christensen

by Anonymous - Aug 18 2011 - 5:53am

hey
great tutorial, thanks a lot. It was really informational and helpful.

I am getting this error on the site
"GMap marker file settings are not configured properly for Private download method, markers will not work!"

I have the js file path at "admin/settings/gmap" set correctly and i can access the same via browser. I even changed the file permissions to 777 just to cross check if that is causing any issue. But still this error doesn't seem to resolve.

Any help will be really appreciated.
many thanks
rina

by Anonymous - Aug 6 2011 - 5:46pm

Thanks for the Gmap+Location tutorial. You're a great teacher.

by Anonymous - Aug 4 2011 - 12:02pm

Just want to thank you for create this clear explain gmap tutorial, it saves me lots of time.
Good job

by Anonymous - Jul 28 2011 - 8:12am

Thanks for this quick amd easy map solution exactly what I needed.
Chris UK

by Anonymous - Jul 19 2011 - 11:24pm

Hi why my height of map is not effect event i put bigger.

Can anyone help me.

Thanks

by Anonymous - Jul 18 2011 - 9:40pm

It very nice. Thanks.

by Anonymous - Jul 3 2011 - 11:51am

Hi,

Thanks for the screencast, I did everything you did, and I do get to see the map and location in my contenttype but when I save it nothing appears on the screen, not even the location in writing let alone the map, when I go to edit, everything is there, I tried it with and without a block setup. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Micha Fuks

by Anonymous - Jun 30 2011 - 11:25am

Thanks a lot :)

You solved my problem :)

by Anonymous - Jun 12 2011 - 9:26am

Great prescription, I'm healthy again !! Thank you ! Works great on Drupal 7.2.
I'd like to figure out that "Location" configuration is not reachable from Configuration but through "Module" panel, in Location module -> link "configure".

Thanks again.

Franck

by Anonymous - Jun 6 2011 - 11:20am

Thank you very much, it really helped me a lot!

by Anonymous - May 10 2011 - 9:00am

Thank's from France for this tutorial :)

by Anonymous - May 4 2011 - 3:55pm

Very helpful intro. Thank you!

by Anonymous - May 4 2011 - 12:09pm

Great Tutorial . thank you for your efforts.

I wonder how to the same thing using CCK field location?

Node Location has to be disabled for CCK field to save and show data but how to get the map to appear on node?

I can see the coordinates selected using gmap but no map nor marker on node.

Anyone?

:)

Serving

by Anonymous - Apr 22 2011 - 12:54pm

i have a node type that is referenced by another node. i have created a node content view (views attach module) that displays field from the referencing node in table on the referenced node's full page view. i would like to have a google map on he referenced node page that displays the locations of the referencing nodes. how?

by Anonymous - Apr 13 2011 - 12:55pm

works great, even in Drupal 7...

by Anonymous - Apr 5 2011 - 9:46am

Thanks a million! These modules didn't have very robust documentation and your overview helped get things jump-started quite nicely.

by Anonymous - Mar 21 2011 - 5:41pm

thanks it helped :)

by Anonymous - Mar 21 2011 - 5:24am

Any chance of providing a download link for this video? I live in China where most "foreign" sites containing user posted videos are blocked (including blip.tv, youtube, etc). Based on the comments here, it sounds like a great video.

by Anonymous - Mar 19 2011 - 10:00am

Thanks Sean. I have watched 2 casts now. This is super helpful in figuring out if I want to go with Drupal as the platform with which to develop our companies website. From what you have shown, I can see that Drupal will do what we need, and appears to be our best choice.

by Anonymous - Mar 3 2011 - 11:21am

great thanks!!!

by Anonymous - Mar 3 2011 - 9:13am

Very nice screencast :)

by Anonymous - Mar 2 2011 - 5:06pm

VERY helpful, good karma to you dude!!
(:

PS - a little slow via blip.tv can you put on one Youtube or Vimeo?

by Anonymous - Feb 26 2011 - 6:45pm

Thank you! This is awesome

by Anonymous - Feb 25 2011 - 4:18am

Good job man!
Thanks.

by Anonymous - Feb 16 2011 - 2:44pm

Great tutorial!
Thanks a lot.

by Anonymous - Feb 13 2011 - 11:43am

Terrific tutorial. I was struggling putting all this together.

Thanks!

by Anonymous - Feb 5 2011 - 5:57pm

Hi Sean, Thanks for Your good work and input. Your Gmap-Therapy is cool but is not the medicine I need today.

But I am trying to put one map or transparent gif over another over a GMAP.

And I wonder if You have some comment or inpt for that purpose.

Anyhow, Thanks again for Your great videos.

Best regards

Roland Becker
Centroamerica.TV

by Anonymous - Jan 21 2011 - 2:55am

hello,
Thank You Very much
your tutorial is very helpful to me
thanks a lot

vaibhavi (India)

by Anonymous - Dec 29 2010 - 6:47pm

Hi Sean,

I was trying to add locations to users rather than nodes, and was struggling until I found your tutorial. I was able to quickly figure it out afterwards.

Thanks!

James

by Anonymous - Dec 22 2010 - 6:18pm

To display map by address only (without having to specify latitude and longitude) , you may need to change settings AND delete and re-enter your address. This confused me for a while, and it looks like a couple of people here had the same problem.

Description: When I followed this tutorial, a google map displayed on the page of the node that has a location. When I added an address without inputing latitude and longitude, no map appeared - just the address with a link to a map. To make it appear, I did the following:

  1. In location admin, go to the "Geocoding Options" section (/admin/settings/location/geocoding)
  2. Turn on mapping for the countries of interest.
  3. Delete and re-enter any addresses you'd like mapped. If you don't do this, the map won't appear. Apparently, coordinates are generated when address is saved?
by Anonymous - Mar 22 2011 - 9:09pm

OMG You are a life saver! Thank you for adding that info about mapping with just the address fields! Fantastic!

by Anonymous - Dec 22 2010 - 4:01pm

Thanks for getting me started :)
The video was easy to follow and great way too start running with maps :D

Greetings from the Netherlands,

Mike

by Anonymous - Dec 8 2010 - 7:26am

Thanks man its helped a lot!!!!!!!

by Anonymous - Nov 5 2010 - 11:10am

Hi Sean,

Very useful info.
When I try it out I don't Have the "See map: Google maps" on my Location pages.
Any idea?
Best regards
Mark

by Anonymous - Nov 4 2010 - 12:36pm

Thanks Sean, you helped me alot.
I became Drupal addict partly because of your tutorials :) (almost 2years now)

by Anonymous - Oct 23 2010 - 2:21am

Good stuff Sean but I want more, LOL I'm looking at functionality which would allow users to search for something specific in a way much like Google local and be able to add the marker based on the best item from their search. Very good, easy to follow, and audio is clear.

Joshua Needham
App Ventures, LLC

by Anonymous - Oct 18 2010 - 1:47pm

Thanks. That was great! Oddly I was mapping a private practice on Longwood Ave across from Boston's Children's Hospital.

by Anonymous - Oct 12 2010 - 1:15pm

Hi Sean,

Thanks, that was really helpfull. Great tutorial.

Robert

by Anonymous - Oct 12 2010 - 12:42pm

Thanks a lot for such a nice tutorial :)

by Anonymous - Oct 8 2010 - 7:29am

Thanks Sean, very enjoyable and informative - got me up and running in no time.

Martin

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