Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.in #1547610: Plan server-side geo clustering for drupal 7 i explain that geocluster is planned as my master thesis in software engineering & internet computing.
as introductory part of the thesis, i will describe drupal mapping foundations, including the Drupal Geo Stack.
the following diagrams should help understand how the different modules interact and where a server-side geocluster solution will be able to integrate itself.
Sources
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9p5ry3z0BdLekpKUFRqbGE4bTQ
Overview
- Drupal Mapping Geofield related geo data input & storage modules
- Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geofield Map
- Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Leaflet
- Drupal Mapping query and display modules - OpenLayers
- Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geocluster
- Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geocluster Solr
Diagrams
Drupal Mapping Geofield related geo data input & storage modules
related Geofield issue: #1570972: Slide / PowerPoint Bin
Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geofield Map
related Geofield issue: #1570972: Slide / PowerPoint Bin
Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Leaflet
related leaflet issue: #1807382: Leaflet Diagram
Drupal Mapping query and display modules - OpenLayers
related openlayers issue: #1807388: OpenLayers Diagram
Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geocluster
Drupal Mapping query and display modules - Geocluster Solr
those currently are rough drafts which i'm going to iterate on. follow the links on the diagrams to the actual sources on google docs and please provide feedback.
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levelos CreditAttribution: levelos commentedThis is amazing @dasjo, incredibly helpful! One comment I have is that you can also use the interactive map, E.g., Leaflet, to query the geodata directly and not rely on geodata dumped to the browser in JS. E.g., on one recent project we're have a click even that looks to see if the clicked coordinates are within a feature on our geo server and, if so, open a popup with some metadata. So maybe an arrow from the map to the geo database via a service?
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dasjothanks for the feedback levelos.
not relying on geodata dumped to the browser in JS is definitely of interest here. i have already incorporated that model for the geocluster implementation: here i'm using views_geojson + a custom leaflet bbox strategy to query the geodata dynamically.
http://drupal.org/node/1807358#geocluster
currently i have limited the diagrams to explaining how the modules behave with drupal by default. maybe i will add some further scenarios for data fetching with external sources as geoserver.
i will try to contribute the leaflet bbox strategy officially as geocluster evolves. currently it lives here
http://drupalcode.org/project/geocluster.git/blob/refs/heads/7.x-1.x:/js...
openlayers already supports such a bbox strategy that works with views_geojson out-of-the-box.
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dasjolatest diagrams:
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9p5ry3z0BdLekpKUFRqbGE4bTQ
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dasjoa screenshot of the GeoRecruiter use case based on DrupalJobs
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chriscalip CreditAttribution: chriscalip commenteddasjo,
is that a progressive clustering implemented ;) that looks nice.
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dasjohi chris,
its actually just server-side, because markercluster currently doesn't support easy integration of geocluster.
i have some minor customizations on that site that still need to get committed for geocluster.
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robertwb CreditAttribution: robertwb commentedThis is great stuff @dasjo