Would love users being prompted to zoom in on their location when presented with a big map of geofields. Or if not prompted just have the option to click in the Views header to zoom in on their location.

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phayes commented
Project: Geofield » Openlayers
Component: User interface » OL Behaviors

This would be a request for a new OpenLayers behavior.

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phayes commented
Title: HTML5 Geolocation as a Views Geofield Map display filter or link in header? » New Behavior: "Zoom to my location" using HTML5 Geolocation
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zzolo commented

There is already a HTML5 based geolocation behavior with this module, which is actually just utilizing a Control from the Openlayers library itself. Check it out and let me know if it fills your needs.

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giorgio79 commented

Do I really need OpenLayers? I can easily output a google maps as display with Geofield, and Geofield too has a widget for HTML5 Geolocation, but they seem to be separate widgets.

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zzolo commented
Project: Openlayers » Geofield
Component: OL Behaviors » GeoFied Map

Well, its arguable whether Geofield should even have that map as an option. It should not really add that much functionality to that map since there is already a GMap module. Pushing back to Geofield to answer or push onto the GMap module.

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phayes commented

If you want this functionality you need to use OpenLayers. The embedded geofield_map module is meant to be very basic and we will not be adding bells and whistles.

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phayes commented

Let me just explain a little more:

We wanted to include a really "basic" mapping module to get people started using geofield, or for really really basic mapping functionality. Geofield is a geospatial storage module and we were never intending to build a full-featured mapping module. We want to compliment the OpenLayers module, not compete with it. So for anything more the "simple" mapping (HTML5 geolocation falls into it), you should look elsewhere.

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phayes commented

And geofield still doesn't have gmap module support due to bugs in gmap. So OpenLayers is pretty much your only option.

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giorgio79 commented

Ok still not sure about OpenLayers.

Check: I have gmap or some kind of dynamic map on field display with GeoField. I checked the source and it includes google gmap and works great.
Check: Geofield claims to have HTML5 Geocoding for user location on data input

I need this widget on data output, and a map.setcenter for the gmap. That's it. It seems I have everything in Geofield for this feature. I guess, we could rename it to "Add HTML5 Geolocation to data output" as well for geofield? :)

What I am after is a modular HTML5 Geolocation, not geofield_map or Openlayers. Also, it seems HTML5 Gelocation never happened for Openlayers #587824: getCurrentPosition help integrating with this module

PS: That issue may be old, and I found this sample for Openlayers http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/geolocation.html. Will be taking a look at Openlayers, although it seems like an overkill for this case.

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phayes commented

I would definitely check out using OpenLayers module - it's really quite awesome.

Despite the fact that I'm leary about complicating geofield_map, I'm more than happy to accept a patch to add in this functionality.

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giorgio79 commented
Component: GeoFied Map » Code
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Proposed this as a proximity filter here
#1561220: Merge geofield_proximity and distance from a point handlers