Hi

I am wondering what distinguishes this project from the Location project, why I would better choose one over the other. Are the feature sets distinct enough to support two separate development streams?

Cheers
-Dave

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brmassa commented
Assigned: Unassigned » brmassa
Status: Active » Fixed

Dave,

well, i was a Location module developer (800+ commits), but the team and i had some differences about the project, so i forked. The differences are:

* Addresses focus primarily on physical addresses. Location has this AND geocoding. Its important when you run a e-Commerce site or other site that only need address and you dont want to have download updates to maintain geocoding and mapping.
* Addresses has an API that allows other modules to add new address's fields, like longitude/latitude, map, phone. Location doesnt.
* Addresses has both user and node/cck addresses. Location doesnt.
* Addresses has (only and by design) Drupal 6 code. Location has a D5 and will be ported in the future to D6.
* Addresses has 65.88 KB. Locations has 1.63 MB.
* Addresses export ALL data to Views. Location doesnt.

* Addresses DOESNT have (yet) any geocoding and mapping integration. I will do this till next year. If you need today, use Location. If you need today AND in a D6 site, there is no solution!
* Location is much more used than Addresses and has much more related modules.

regards,

massa

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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hnln commented

I guess an issue queue is not the place to do this, but tnx brmassa for this info, I had exactly the same problem (go for custom cck fields, addresses or location) and your post clarified a lot. I already found out that location while having the gmap functionality lacks good views support for each field separately.

I do however need the gmap functionality, so looking forward to your gmap integration or maybe be able to work together with location so the location's gmap marker can pick up on the addresses address fields rather then having to repeat them for the location module.

Tnx,

HnLn

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aren cambre commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

How have location's recent updates affected the list in #1?

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Youdaman commented
Version: 6.x-1.05 » 6.x-1.0-alpha2

Thanks brmassa for a _simple_ address module. Like Aren, I'd be interested to hear the current status with regards to the comparison!

aren cambre’s picture

aren cambre commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-alpha2 » 6.x-1.05

Updating to current version.

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jantoine commented
Version: 6.x-1.0-alpha2 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

To my knowledge no new features have been added to the addresses module since Bruno's original comments in #1. We are currently working to clean up bugs for a 6.x-1.1 release. At that time we will look at adding new features. You can always get the latest information from the project page: http://drupal.org/project/addresses. Perhaps once 6.x-1.1 is released we will create a comparison page.

Cheers,

Antoine

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.