[SOLVED] Mapping nodes and proximity

Posted by mastermindg on November 10, 2012 at 2:45pm

I have a custom content type with an address field.

I want users to be able to search near an address (proximity) for nodes...possibly using Views integration.

What is the best module to do this with in 7.x?

Comments

Openlayers

Posted by sadashiv on November 10, 2012 at 3:01pm

You will need two modules http://drupal.org/project/openlayers and http://drupal.org/project/openlayers_proximity, these two modules integrate with views and gives feature of exposed filters for search in proximity.

Hth,
Sadashiv.

You will also need

Posted by nicoz on November 10, 2012 at 5:27pm

You will also need the geofield and geocoder modules to geocode your address field. Take a look at the openlayers locator module for how it all fits together.

Thanks for the advise! I

Posted by mastermindg on November 10, 2012 at 8:33pm

Thanks for the advise!

I ended up installing the openlayers locator feature and then backward-engineered it for my content type. It's really confusing and openlayers doesn't really have any descent documentation.

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