Geocoding and Google Mapping with Drupal
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:22
Just thought I'd show you the "dealer locator" I built recently for Armour Automotive.
The dealer locator is built using the Drupal GMAP and Location modules in conjunction with my own bespoke module.
The bespoke module makes it possible to pull location data from a central source in a multi-site Drupal environment. Armour Automotive owns a number of audio and automotive brands and the ability to easily manage all their dealer location information in one central location and have it automatically published to the appropriate "brand" site has been both an eye opener and a time saver for Armour.
The past few months has seen heavy investment by Armour in re-vamping 10 brand websites using Drupal 7 and yours truly helping with the technical stuff. It's been a very busy few months to say the least, but I'll be publishing details of some great new Drupal 7 sites in hopefully the next few days.
Much of the credit for the ArmourAuto.com site has to go to James Hoskins and Stuart Ephgrave (both at Armour) who have put a lot of high quality work into making great content for the Armour site - not to mention, believing in the possibilities ...
Edit: A link to a more recent (and more advanced) map I've built www.shopgreenwich.co.uk/map. Source code for the Drupal module is provided in the comments for anyone interested.
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Do you share your bespoke module??
I would certainly think about it if asked (and probably say yes :) )
Have you also seen this one -> www.shopgreenwich.co.uk/map
Sorry for delay in replying. I've been thinking about whether or not to open source this, but on balance decided against for now (sorry). If that ever changes, I'll let you know :)
Hi again Simon,
Been checking your scripts, and this one http://www.holisticsystems.co.uk/position_manager/index.php is awesome. Is it open source? cos i would like to try it on my site
regards,
Wow that one looks great, awesome work dude!! I would really like to use your module in a project im working on
Just checking, are you a developer ? Both modules have lots of hard-coded configurations and are tailored for the specific needs of the client. There are no admin interfaces and you would almost certainly need to modify the code to make either module do what you need.
That being the case, which one do you want :) ?
Armour Autos version is earlier but has the ability to include data from multiple sites (in a multi-site set up). ShopGreenwich version is later but as the ability to tag items in multiple taxonomies and have each term with it's own map icon.
Yes I am. Have customized for our own company needs the Atrium drupal profile, mixed with storm module, and created our own specific features. In this case the ShopGreenwich solution seems to be the one that matches the project needs. Its a single site configuration, and we need to show the factories and dealers from our customer, and the use of taxonomies and different map icons will do the job.
Here is the module code for www.shopgreenwich.co.uk/map ---> holistic_map.module
You can get the free icons that I used here http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-icons/. These need to be place in sites/whatever/files/map-icons
You'll need to add an image field to the relevant taxonomies and configure it to upload it's images to sites/whatever/files/map-icons (or change the code to do whatever you like).
Enjoy :)
Thanks a lot, will send u a link when done :D
You're welcome. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)
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