drupal mapping, a brid's eye view

Drupal mappinga bird's eye view

Victor Cardoso | user: vcardoso (685380) | victor@nodes.pt

What's that all about maps?

|maps provide a unique perspective over data

|users are familiar with them

|drupal is a great vehicle for data

Mental inprint

|maps provide a unique perspective over data

|users are familiar with them

|drupal is a great vehicle for data

One place, lot's of data

Click me!

Mapping in the Drupal ecosystem

|several modules for D6

|comparison of the geospatial modules on http://groups.drupal.org/node/89769 (20)

|under heavy development for D7

OpenLayers

|interface to view map data

|openlayers.org|open-source, third-party, javascript library

|project of the OSGeo

OpenLayersand Drupal

|fully functional under D6

|uses CTools plugin architecture|integrates with CCK, Views and Filters

|drupal.org/project/openlayers

OpenLayersworking bits

|maps (aka presets)

|styles|layers

|behaviours

Other goodies

|cck input

|views (map displays)|views (map overlays)

Related modules

|geotaxonomy

|openlayers proximity|openlayers geocoder

|mapbox

Quick demo

|d6 install

Questions?

|Victor Cardoso |user: vcardoso (685380) |victor@nodes.pt

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