By Tom Chapman on

Hi all,

I'm looking to put together a site which will be a directory of particular businesses across the country - so I'm looking at the location\mapping capabilities of Drupal.

What I'd like to achieve is

  • A page (or pages) for each business, with the ability for that business to edit certain information themselves
  • The ability to display businesses on a map
  • To be able to search for all businesses by postcode, town or point on a map
  • Forum integration

Now I'm pretty sure Drupal can do all of this, but I'm getting a bit lost working out which modules are the most appropriate and which are still current.

Any assistance letting me know if Drupal will be suitable will be most appreciated. Equally any direction as to what modules would help me achieve this would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

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WorldFallz commented

I recently did something similar (except the proximity search) using d7 with views, addressfield, openlayers, geocoder, and geofield. iirc though, there's work on porting the openlayers_proximity module to d7 in the issue queue.

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socceronly commented

Did you ever get Views to search on state/province (can't remember the name of the field) to work?

Maybe I should have another go at it. I found Views would not work with that particular uh part of address field.

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WorldFallz commented

The views integration definitely needs work, and there's a couple of patches in the queue already, but yes I got usa states to work (but it uses the abbreviations, not the full spelling-- ie CA not 'California').

btw... 'state/province' is 'administrative_area'.

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socceronly commented

Cool. Maybe I will have another go at it. I was waiting for another release until I tried again.

Thanks,
JM

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socceronly commented

Here is a tutorial I read recently.

I have not tried it yet myself.

http://www.istos.it/blog/mapping/openlayers-and-addressfieldis