Google map from CCK fields

Posted by picciuto on October 26, 2008 at 10:18pm

I have Drupal 6.5 and I'm fairly new to Drupal. I am building a simple business directory using CCK & Views. Well, it was simple until I tried to add Google Maps to each entry. I've made a few custom CCK fields (Street, City, Zip) and I would like to know if I can display a Google Map from these fields. I've looked into a few different modules (Gmaps, Location, Address, Geo) but nothing seems to do what I'm looking for or they seem overly complicated for a simple map display. It appears it was possible with Drupal 5.x using the CCK Map module but it's not compatible with Drupal 6.x. If anybody has any tips or suggestions I would be very grateful.

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afaik, gmap and location are

Posted by WorldFallz on October 27, 2008 at 12:43am

afaik, gmap and location are the map modules for d6.

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Not sure what afaik is

Posted by picciuto on October 27, 2008 at 4:26pm

Hmmm, I'm not sure what afaik is. I have played around with Gmap with no luck of pulling the address from CCK fields.

lol-- sorry it's just one of

Posted by WorldFallz on October 27, 2008 at 5:43pm

lol-- sorry it's just one of those lovely little internet laziness conventions. AKAIK = As Far As I Know

Sorry-- I've not used the gmap module except with the location module which seems to work great so far (with the current d6 stable releases of each module).

The cck_gmapaddress module looks promising, but it's not available for d6 yet.

EDIT: it appears as if location module is adding a cck location field, see http://drupal.org/node/183004#comment-1074517.

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Wow, you would think for as

Posted by picciuto on October 28, 2008 at 4:41am

Wow, you would think for as many hours as I spend in the internet everyday I would know what AFAIK is. Haha. Thanks for the tip!

location module provides

Posted by gotcha41 on July 27, 2011 at 5:07am

location module provides indeed a cck field, but it's not the same as a "custom cck field".

searching here as well for an option to use my "own" custom cck fields

EDIT: I found a way: I populated the location cck field (from location module) with the custom cck field value, using RULES module (used tokens)

Adding a directory map

Posted by fsirett on February 2, 2010 at 9:20am

Gmap is a bit of a pain. I have done it all outside of CCK, but I am now looking at gleaning the location from the location CCK system and putting it into a CCK-Gmap, but have had no luck thus far. Early days and not a lot of knowledge hold me back