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Use case
In the context of nodes with geo-information – for example using maps - there is pretty often the requirement to display further geo-related information in the same area as the geo-information of the node itself. ´whami source-adapter´delivers a generic method fulfilling this requirement together with two source adapters, one for Panoramio, one for Wikipedia. This module was part of the development of whami.com and can easily be extented with further source adapters.

Usage
First you must have nodes with geo-information in your Drupal Database. Specifically nodes of a configurable content type that have the geodata in a cck field of type geo.

The modules provide blocks named "whami Source Adapter: [Source Name]" i.e. "whami Source Adapter: Panoramio" or "whami Source Adapter: Wikipedia". Set your content type and cck geo field name in the block configuration and put the block in a region on the page.

Description
‘whami source-adapter’ delivers two configurable display blocks for Wikipedia/Panoramio-content which is locally close to the geo-information of the node.
There are general dependencies (CCK- and Geo-module) as well as specific dependencies for each source adapter.

Panoramio source adapter
The Panoramio source adapter selects photos via the Panoramio REST API using the following parameters:

- Photo type public (not configurable)
- number of displayed photos (configurable)
- for the preview the size ´small´ is used (not configurable)
- for the lightbox-display the size ´medium´ is used (not configurable)

Dependency
Lightbox 2.0
Successfully tested with this relese Lightbox 6.x-1.11

The selected photos are displayed in small size in a block. By clicking on the photo you get a medium size display of the photo in a lightbox. The narrative of the medium size picture shows a link to the photo and author page of the photo.

The use of Lightbox2 is mandatory in conjunction with the Panoramio source adapter in order to keep to the terms of service of Panoramio.

Wikipedia source adapter
The Wikipedia source adapter selects articles near the zoomed area from the Geonames service on www.geonames.com. This is done via the Geonames module. We recommend to use the premium service of Geonames since it is more reliable.
Therefore there is a dependency to the Geonames module for this source adapter.

Configuration
The module has configuration screens within the block configuration for each block:

  • the definition of the geofield which is used within the node
  • the radius used for the proximity search around the node´s geofield
  • the number of small photos in the block (max. 100)

Dependencies

The module has successfully been tested on Drupal 6.22 with the Geonames 1.5 version, the Geo 6.x-1.0-alpha5 version, the CCK 6.x-3.x-dev version and the Lightbox2 6.x-1.x-dev version.

References
You can use the website of whami.com as a reference for the working module. If you should require additional source adapters please contact the maintainers of the module.

NOTE:
Neither the maintainers of this module nor whami.com are liable for your usage of this module. You are clearly advised to follow all the terms of service of Panoramio and Wikipedia:
http://www.panoramio.com/api/data/terms.html
http://www.panoramio.com/api/data/api.html
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use

This module is sponsored by whami.com. Maintainers are vlad.k and martin.l.

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