By userofdrupal on

I want to include a simple Google map on each node that represents a business. However, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with all the modules that seem to be related to maps, such as:

Address field for CCK
cck_map
geomap
GMap Module
GMap Addons
Google Client Geocoder
location (API, module)
Map api
Map module

I suppose I could also manually embed a Google map in the nodes content area. So how can I create a map so that I can have:

ABC Company, Inc.
123 Main St.
SomeCity, FL 12345

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|                     |
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|  <Google map here>  |
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|                     |
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ronan’s picture

ronan commented

The two modules I've used together are Location (to store the address) and gmap, (to build the map).

I usually just embed the gmap code right in my node-xxx.tpl.php file with some code a little like this:

      $thismap = gmap_parse_macro('[gmap zoom=15|width=400px|height=200px|id=business_map|control=Small|type=Map|markermode=0]');
      $thismap['markers'] = array();
      $thismap = gmap_location_node_map( $node, $thismap, true );
      if( $thismap['markers'] ) {
        print theme('gmap',array('#settings'=>$thismap));
      }

That should be all you need to create the layout your looking for (c.f. http://www.greenguardian.com/amazon-environmental-inc or http://localhost/bloomingdale/business/business-directory/abashiri-japan...)

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userofdrupal’s picture

userofdrupal commented

Thanks! Your greenguardian example is the type of thing that I would want to do. The localhost site will be more difficult for me to view ;)

I will look into the gmap module.

ronan’s picture

ronan commented

The localhost site will be more difficult for me to view ;)

Ha ha... what a moron. This one might work better:

http://www.villageofbloomingdale.org/business/business-directory/abashir...

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Ronan
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Agency Tools Lead - Pantheon - https://www.pantheon.io/

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mat. commented

I cannot find function "gmap_location_node_map" in gmap module for Drupal 5.
Better function for this is gmap_simple_map..

gmap_simple_map($latitude, $longitude, $markername = '', $info = '', $zoom = 'auto', $width = 'default', $height = 'default', $autoshow = FALSE, $map = array())

its using is for example (in node-xxx.tpl.php):

print gmap_simple_map(30, 30, ...);
ronan’s picture

ronan commented

Yeah, that function seems to have been removed from the module in a recent update. That was a fun discovery.

R
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Ronan
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Agency Tools Lead - Pantheon - https://www.pantheon.io/

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userofdrupal commented

I'm still learning about Gmap and theming. There is something about Drupal which makes it conceptually hard to understand, I don't know if it's lack of good documentation or the design of the system itself, or just the fact that cms's are generally complicated. I have created a custom content type using CCK and added location to this type. Now with custom theming I've created a node-mytype.tpl.php file that allows me to display the map and location information the way I want it.

I just found this link about putting a map on nodes, which is helpful I think: http://drupal.org/node/242014