By geohelper on

VlogMap.org launched in July 2004 (pre-iTunes), migrated to Drupal in June 2005 and will soon undergo an upgrade. The community is mainly focused on video bloggers, but is open to anyone who loves videos and blogging.

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orick’s picture

orick commented

Interesting Map on the front page. How did you do that?

Your logo looks a bit sinister and shadowy. It looks like some trying to stab the world. :) Maybe brighten it up a bit?

Great site.

vm’s picture

vm commented

hmm.. shadow looks like someone holding a handheld video cam to me.

anyway, the map seems to be part of the gmap.module found in the downloads area.

geohelper’s picture

geohelper commented

Actually, the site does not use the gmap module or the location module.

I'm a big fan of both modules and have used them on other sites, but they are missing some very key features. Maybe I'm wrong, but there currently is not a way to prepopulate the lat/lon values via a posted url. Also, there isn't a way to dynamically set the default center point for the node/add map.

Also, I created custom database tables for region, country and state that contains the lat/lon for each area's center.

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orick commented

pretty good job on the maps.

As always, please share what modules/themes you used and what your experience with them was like? Thanks.

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geohelper commented

The theme is completely custom too, although I use a newer version of it on Ridertech.com, which features the aggregator module + a hack to support media enclosures... which allows users to subscribe to action sport-specific video podcasts.

As for modules on VlogMap, I'm using some basics ones like buddylist and tagadelic... as well as the video module which I hacked to support geocoding w/o the location module (also added support for m4v and mpg files).

I'm hoping to find the time to build a new site for VM, but I'm struggling to find the best process... I plan to start by mirroring the live database, but I'm not sure how to develop the new site yet maintain the ability to port over the content that is added to the live site during development. Part of the plan is to switch modules for some content.

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fax8 commented

It seems that you are using my video module. Cool!

Did you make some modification on the video module?
Or are you just using clean package?

Fabio

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geohelper commented

I hard-coded a few hacks (since I wasn't sure how else to change some things)...

- added geocoding since I'm not using the location module
- added quicktime mime-type for .m4v and .mpg files
- themed so the video is embedded on the node view
- custom module to alter the how to form (some hard-coding)

I'll email you offlist about collaborating on some added features.