Hi,
This module looks very promissing! thanks for building this!
Could you may be also look into taxonomy support, so the geo-locations, can be hierarchical taxonomy terms: country, region, place etc..
Thanks a lot in advance for considering this!

greetings,
Martijn

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jmiccolis commented

This is something I've hacked together in the past and found useful. I'd be willing to work on it if any of the geo maintainers think it would be a valuable addition.

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allie micka
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In general, geo is an API. So I'm hoping to stay away from too much stapling-on-of-other-things.

Now, the geo_data module supports referencing external datasources, presenting a name to the user, and internally referencing a table that contains geospatial data.

For example, you can:

1) Download a shape file containing all of the state boundaries from http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/national-files
2) Import that zip file into your db using the web interface provided by the geo_data module
3) Create a CCK field that present users with a list of states to choose from, and then make data with that field searchable by state boundaries

This satisfies the goal of having "words/terms" map to shape-related data, and eliminates the need to do a lot of mapping and/or data gathering.

One could do something similar with taxonomy, I imagine; but that's introducing another layer of indirection and some sort of synchronization process between tid's and geospatial data. Tentatively, I feel that this belongs in a separate module that leverages Geo's API.

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summit commented

+1 for geo_taxonomy module!
greetings,
Martijn

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allie micka
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My inclination is to "won't fix" this issue, because I genuinely feel that it's outside the scope of Geo itself.

However, for the sake of argument, how would you propose to collect, import, synchronize, and store the geospatial attributes for taxonomy terms?

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summit commented

Hi,

Thanks still for considering.
See the D5 Place module. This has a place_taxonomy submodule in which the countries, regions and cities are hierarchical stored from the location tables.
This is what I very much would like to have in D6.
definition: a taxonomy with geo-info country,region, city with lat/lon on middle points of all three and stored hierarchical in taxonomy. So all content can be tagged with this geo-info!

Thanks a lot in advance for still considering building this, this would enormously help geo-info tagging!
Greetings,
Martijn