By altparty on

I'm interested if anyone managed to export the Gmap View (with nodes/markers), also called a mashup, into a Google Gadget XML. With this mapplet it's possible to publish your location-related content on as a personal (shared) map on Google Maps.

This could be of help: http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69786&topic=11364

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Gman commented

I would really be interested in this is as well.

Two weeks ago I was able to transform a GMAP view into a georss feed and use that for an exportable google map. Documented a bit at http://www.tech-wanderings.com/google-maps-drupal-and-dog-parks with example.

But to do it more through the Gmap module would be great.

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guillaumeduveau’s picture

guillaumeduveau
Location Toulouse
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I'd be interested too, but this is beyond my skills !

I wonder if it is even possible. Communication with the Map is Asynchronous may mean Google Maps has to send Ajax requests to Drupal. Can Drupal do this ? Or maybe I didn't understand Google's sentence (I hope so) since I didn't really dig yet.

And if is was possible, wouldn't it be too heavy to have Drupal manage this ? The Mapplets are cached by Google Maps, so maybe it's OK.

For the moment I'm considering writing the admin interface and database with Drupal with the usual Google Maps mashup (location, gmap, ...) , and coding from scratch a PHP script that will provide the Mapplet XML.

I'm asking the Location and Mapping group if somebody has plans about this, read here.

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altparty commented

Thank you for poking up this (small) fire. It would be nice if the content that is already available on a lot of Drupal websites can be published this way.

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guillaumeduveau’s picture

guillaumeduveau
Location Toulouse
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A lot of people is working on finishing their 5-2-x modules implied (views, location ,gmap) or upgrading to 6 so I'm afraid this will take a little while. I'm now playing with the stack on Drupal 5 but still didn't try to write an Drupal-independant widget, querying the Drupal Database. I want it to be light and avoid loading all the Drupal stuff, I still haven't decided between plain PHP or if it's possible, using the lightest Drupal framework load.