GMap + Location Screencast
- Pharmacology:
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.
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Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the video!
Thank you very much. It's
Thank you very much. It's works perfect.
Thanks Sean. You showed me
Thanks Sean. You showed me what these modules do, which is extraordinarily difficult to get from the Drupal website all too often, and how to get it done.
Sean! This is great!! thanks
Sean!
This is great!! thanks so much. The way to explain it is so useful because you assume that people don't know enything, tha's why it's so easy to follow!
Thanks so much. Lior
Sean. Can I download your
Sean. Can I download your screencast for future reference?
Really appreciate it, thanks
Really appreciate it, thanks a lot! I was going the wrong way with Location CCK originally...
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
you are awesome. Just save my
you are awesome. Just save my life.
thanks for your sharing information.
Very helpful! Thanks.
Very helpful! Thanks.
thx for this nice
thx for this nice location/gmap introduction ... until now i messed the locative information up with the additional gmap addon module and the cck location field ... this doesn't behave like i expected. it might be the best for me to choose the same setup as you have chosen in the video tutorial ...
thanks, mike
hi sean, thx for your nice
hi sean,
thx for your nice tutorial. I got everything working fine. On the user page we find the residence of each user. On an overview you can find all users on the page. But here is what makes the problem. It takes ages to load. On my site there are about 250 users and it takes around 2 min to load, and there should come more users in the future, so that the script, I supose will be timed out and the page can not be loadet any more.
Would you have a suloution for this
Thx george
Thanks so much for this
Thanks so much for this video. I followed it and it worked great! I probably never would have figured this out without this...
However, do you know if there's a way so that users have the option to either enter the address to get a marker or to click and drag to set the marker?
currently on my site (www.ithappenedhere.org) the only way to set a marker is by clicking around...
Thanks so much if anyone could help me with this!
Superb! Thanks very much.
Superb! Thanks very much. Keep up the great work.
Nice and clear tutorial. Easy
Nice and clear tutorial. Easy to understand...
Thank you.
Sinan
Hi Sean, Thanks for the great
Hi Sean,
Thanks for the great screencasts, they have helped me tremendously.
Your screencasts are the
Your screencasts are the best! They are always quick and informative and have saved me many hours of frustration. Keep up the great work.
Hi Sean, I followed this
Hi Sean,
I followed this screenshot and found it's so so useful. But there is one problem that you said you will show it later on but never happen even until the end of this tutorial. (I guess you forgot.)
The problem is how to edit the information in the info window because there is no reason that check the "open info window" but nothing happen...
I tried to fix it by myself but I'm not sure about do I need to make the features just like google code suggested (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlinfo.html) or the gmap module has already provided this kind of function?
I found there are some other guys have this problem and don't know how to deal this.
Please show me how to search for further information. If I could figure this out, I will come back and share.
Best
Annie
Thank you for this video
Thank you for this video therapy.
Thanks for this - helped me
Thanks for this - helped me sort out out to centre the node map which I just couldn't figure. A donate box would be useful for me to show my appreciation :)
Thank you! I watched your
Thank you! I watched your Date+Calendar screencast and then I HAD to watch the other ones! It's amazing how things get easier if there's someone that shows you how to do it ;)! I'm waiting for the next prescription (may I suggest a Panel/Mini-panel pill?).
Thanks again.
Ciao from Italy.
Cristian
hey brill, im just looking at
hey
brill, im just looking at the search options for the modules and wondering how to configure them better for search results within events, maybe this could be something to look at?
ben
sean, i guess i'm just
sean,
i guess i'm just another lemming. this was really nice to see done. i've watched you a few times now and i think the best part opf your screencasts are the last two minutes where you wrap things up but give future implications of what the modules can do...makes things really exciting
steve
Thanks for this video, from
Thanks for this video, from italy.
But: how can hide the "Location data" ? I want to see only the map.
M.
Exactly what I was looking
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you for this!
Very useful screencast. The
Very useful screencast. The help files are lacking for setting up what is very basic functionality. I figured out my problem quickly following your video. thanks
Excellent screencast
Excellent screencast Sean!
Did you notice that for your first story (Mass General Hospital) that the map controls are not visible (approximately time 11:19 in video)? Do you know why this is?
This also happened to me and I can NOT get the controls on any of the individual nodes. Some investigating shows that the nodes have div class=auto1map" but the node location block has class="nodemap"???
Fantastic tutorial. Why is it
Fantastic tutorial. Why is it that people who write modules for Drupal are in general completely unable / unwilling to provide adequate instructions. If it wasn't for people like Sean we'd all be spending far too long trying to figure out out the basics. Thanks Sean.
great tutorial! am just
great tutorial! am just wonderin if theres a way i can download your tutorials? it would be nice as an "offline" reference whenever i need to go back at it.
thanks! and more power!
I've followed this
I've followed this walk-through three times and still can't get any markers to show up on any map. I see the marker when editing a node, but when displaying a node, I see the map with no controls and no markers. It's like all of the map javascript is being completely ignored when viewing a node. Using the latest release of Drupal and gmap (not the dev stuff). Any ideas?
All your screencasts are fab
All your screencasts are fab and to the point. Look forward to more in the future. Cheers
Sean, you are awesome. No
Sean, you are awesome. No other real feedback. Oh, and... thank you!
very nice. thank you drupal
very nice.
thank you
drupal rocks
Thanks for this great
Thanks for this great tutorial! But my problem is that I can't feel up the balloon. A tried to fill every fields on my form, but nothing happened. Don't you know what the problem can be?
I mean I can't *fill* up the
I mean I can't *fill* up the ballon... :) sorry
Hi! That's what i'm looking
Hi!
That's what i'm looking for! Easy and simple to understand. A fantastic cast. Fanx!
Greets from Germany,
Andy
I thought that I followed
I thought that I followed your steps exactly but I must have missed something. The "Node locations" (mywebsite/map/node) screen appears as it should with several location pins and proper control of the map. But an individual location (for example: mywebsite/node/26) does not have the map controls on the map and the mouse zoom is enabled. Any idea what the problem could be? How can I use the "Node locations" map on one of my pages?
BTW, I think your screencats are excellent so I guess I'm just too much of a beginner and maybe I should learn a little more before I try this stuff.
hi, i am having the same
hi, i am having the same problem. Did you find a solution?
No I didn't. I'm ignoring it
No I didn't. I'm ignoring it for now and hoping to fix it later and maybe someone will tell me what I did wrong. I'll post the solution if I find one.
Hi. I had this, and
Hi. I had this, and eventually found it in the block "Location map".
Edit the macro for whichever content type is missing the control, adding the parameter "control=Small".
I dont usually post feedback
I dont usually post feedback on sites which I dont frequently visit, but I had to thank you somehow. Great job.
Sean, I loved you tutorial! I
Sean,
I loved you tutorial! I need some help. I can't find a "content" block I do have "content top" and "content bottom". The map doesn't expand to the maximum height specified when placed in these blocks. How do I configure the "content" block to appear?
thanks,
Milo
Sean, great vid. But my
Sean,
great vid. But my question is different. How did you make this post new comment box appear at the bottom? Mine has a "Add new comment" button before I can access it.
Thanks,
Milo
well done! Thank you very
well done!
Thank you very much!
Dude, this video was
Dude, this video was awesome!! Very good job!
Great tutorial! How can I
Great tutorial!
How can I make the node's markers clickable as the map/node (Node locations page) ?
Thanks,
Alessandro
Hi Sean very usefull,
Hi Sean very usefull, screencast. Can you to another, where you show how to build marked areas on an inbound Gmap? Another good idea would be if it's possible to provide own defined Gmaps in Drupal.
Regards Roger
PS: I allways enjoy your Screencasts very much.
very good tutorial man! How
very good tutorial man! How can I show just a group of places in the map? Let's say, I want to filter the marks to see the 2 best hospitals in cardiology? How can I do that? I would be very thankful for any feedback.
Thanx!
exellent, can't thank you
exellent, can't thank you enough. i used to try gmap and location like half a year ago and put it to the side cause i just did not get it running. this now opens me new dimensions for making some of my pages nicer.
would look forwar to another more in depth podcast about gmaps (i.e showing only markers for a certain view, etc)
maps somehow is stilla very dark part of drupal for no reasons, yu just need to know a few things and it's easy as pie.
Excellent - I spent over 60
Excellent - I spent over 60 minutes making sense of how to use Location and GMap together. I did not get very far. Excellent screencast. Very clear and concise. Thanks very much. Thanks from Ireland.
Brilliant thanks!!!
Brilliant thanks!!! Informative, well structured & presented, excellent, concise and accurate. Thank you.
Question: How did you get a Google API key to work on your local dev machine? Your url is localhost, how did you do this?
Thx again!
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