Google Maps + Gallery

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I would like more details regarding the Bulkload feature !

Are you referring to uploading a gps track (like a route) that
would overlay polylines (like the current route feature)? Attached is a pic of what I mean.

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Termite,
You asked about including the infowindow templates (the 'gxxxxx.inc' files) that
I created in the releases.

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I've kept the files as you provided . I made no changes to them or anything.

OK. Here is a way I came up with to address having URLs that
appear in summary and/or description follow the 'popup' method
in the 'g' files. It requires adding code to two files (ShowMap.inc
and MapHeader.tpl). I could not come up with a way of accomplishing
this using just the 'g' files. Maybe you will consider using
this way -or- come up with another way?

(I'm still working with 0.4.5 files)
After this line in ShowMap.inc (at least I put it here):
include ($absolutegallerydir."modules/map/templates/infowindow/".$map['MapWindowType'].".inc");

this needs to be added (it is used to pass the name of the
infowindow template file):
$map['infoWindowName']=$map['MapWindowType'];

In MapHeader.tpl replace: (...)

The 'g' files remain the same.
It all appears to work as intended. What do you think?

Well, I think that it's good that way but I'm going to look for a way to get the same result using only the 'g' files. Otherwise I keep that as a backup solution. It works great

Doing this could be a dangerous thing for those that would not
pay attention to necessary warnings regarding the number of
trackpoints that can be used without problems. I found that
using too many would completely stress the browser's ability
to plot the polylines (and even crash it). The track/route in
the pic I posted earlier is comprised of 400 points. I formatted
them and plugged them into your route feature (I stuck the data into
the datbase manually). I made a post some time back about this
in which I had mentioned the Xmaps library.

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Ok after making some very basic tests i was able to draw the tracklog you provided (the 2484 points one).

I cheated a bit by "splitting" the polyline in series of 1000 points (which seems to work fine in FF 1.5 and in IE 6)

Be sure to load and reload the page. Also be sure to go through
the zoom range. The area of those points can zoom only to level
three on a sat map. See if you find any problem with this.
Maybe the polyline(s) not drawing completely or browser slowdown.
What map API are you using? Just curious. When I last played
with those tracks I think it was probably 1.27a or less.

I think, if this would work out OK, people with digital
cameras and GPSr will get a charge out of it. Going on a
trek with a GPSr (which will save the tracklog) and snapping
pictures along the way. Using a variety of methods, combining
the tracklog can be used to GeoStamp the exif data in the photos.
Just think about the possibilities.

I would love to have a HUUUUUGE track for several thousands (or maybe millions ?) of points and see if it works fine still.

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I would love to have a HUUUUUGE track for several thousands (or maybe millions ?) of points and see if it works fine still.

I ran into the same limitations and just kept reducing the number
of points until I found a number (about 400) that appeared to
work OK for me (I also have 2G mem). I did not even consider
what would happen on a smaller machine.

In any case, I found the attached gpx file (I left the extension
.gpx on it - it's just a text file though) on The Net. It
has 6040 trkpt's and some other stuff (waypoints).

By the way, just in case it is of interest, the tracklog I put up
earlier represents a hike of about 18 miles.

Off topic; but, in case you're interested:
Go to about:config
find:
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
and change it from -1 to zero

also maybe try:
config.trim_on_minimize
set it to true and after allowing FF to grow, watch the memory
as you minimize FF. Quite a sight. I believe this setting
did not exist and I added it.

Daaaaamn, it looked long on the map I had no idea it was hike ... good job man, that's impressive !!

hey!
i finished translating the .po-file into german and as far as i can see it works fine for me ;-)
corrections welcome ;-)
seehundnz :wink:

I have some time . . .

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I have some time . . .

Well Termite, since you have such an inordinate amount of time
with nothing to do

I have set up some if/else statements in MapHeader.tpl where the
map.googleMapKey is set which detect the servername and port number. I did this in order to use the same ShowMap for the
same servername being accessed via http and https (This of course,
requires separate map keys). I then added a couple of other
different servernames (same as domainname in these cases).

I then started down the road of trying to create a key
management addition to MapSiteAdmin. After trying to think of
how I might do this, I thought, maybe adapt the filters stuff.
Well, i did mange to get pretty far; but, I'v now got myself
in a mess (my little knowledge has proven dangerous). I
ended up abandoning the key management effort and instead
just stuck with what I could do . . . the if/else statements.
Hey, they work for me.

Maybe -you- could more easily (and more quickly) adapt the
filters stuff to manage multiple map keys? I suppose it may
need four fields (a name for the entry, servername, serverport,
map key).

I did this in MapHeader:

{if $map.serverName == "www.anysystem.com" and $map.serverPort == "80"}
<script src="http://maps.google.com/ma . . .
{else}
{if $map.serverName == "www.anysystem.com" and $map.serverPort == "443"}
<script src="http://maps.google.com/ma . . .
{/if}
{/if}

Something to think about anyway?

version 0.4.6 will be released soon with the improvement made in "current work" + the MapKey management + % for map width/heigh

Looks good ?

floridave wrote:

swordfish wrote:

In addition to this error which I see exactly the same issue, the blank.gif is also wanting to display off the map at the bottom of my page. Check out the attached screenshot to believe it. Look near bottom, on top of my Gentoo icon. Funny, huh? FF of course displays everything perfectly.

This is with WPG2 right? The URL rewrite does not work and is not supported.

ozgreg wrote:

I can no longer continue supporting the embedded configuration of the Gallery2 rewrite modules.

floridave wrote:

See:
http://wpg2.ozgreg.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=5538#5538
I would say that with the Gentoo logo and the Gallery logo (screen shot on wiki) that this is not a map module issue.

Dave

swordfish wrote:

Heh, yea I'm very aware of WPG2 and G2's url rewrite. But I've gotten it to work very well. I'm not so sure this is a WPG2 issue because previous map-module versions worked and the screenshot on the Wiki I believe is G2 standalone. So, perhaps the blank.gif around the navigation is a map-module issue but my additional issue is due to WPG2 and Url rewrite.?
I've gotten it to work by appending my full fqdn to the pngbehavior.htc (line 29) which fixes the navigation but my Gentoo icon is replaced with blank.gif (a tiny black dot). This is too funny and why it does that in IE is a mystery.

EDIT: I got it fixed. That Gentoo icon was a .png file (the rest are gif's). After converting it to a jpeg the map displays fine now under IE6. I guess your png transparency magic applies to any and all png images displayed.

I think a better option (since we will have a CSS for the module) would be to do something like this in the CSS:

#map img { 
  behavior: url( path/to/pngbehavior.htc ); 
  padding: 0; 
  }

Then all the images in the "map" <div> would have the behavior applied and not the rest of the page. Thoughts?

And also change line 29 of behavior.htc to:
var blankSrc = "http://www.google.com/mapfiles/transparent.gif";
Comments?

I think a better option (since we will have a CSS for the module) would be to do something like this in the CSS:

#map img { 
  behavior: url( path/to/pngbehavior.htc ); 
  padding: 0; 
  }

Then all the images in the "map" <div> would have the behavior applied and not the rest of the page. Thoughts?

And also change line 29 of behavior.htc to:
var blankSrc = "http://www.google.com/mapfiles/transparent.gif";
Comments?

Checkout >> http://www.geocodezip.com/basic8j.asp?filename=example_number.xml

I was thinking this would be cool for the "Routes" showing your starting point as marker #1, points in between and ending. Maybe when the map module supports multiple maps have a numbered marker icon set, ability to choose each individual numbered marker icon for each map location with Routes.

Having a css module would it be possible to control the infowindow font type/size, limit the infowindows to a specific size, have scrollbars and increase/decrease the width of the G2 sidebar?
Like this example: http://www.evilc.com/phpbb/gmaps.php

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was thinking this would be cool for the "Routes" showing your starting point as marker #1

ya that is pretty cool

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Hows about a link so we can have a look?

Actually im not sure if theres a working version out there, I got the idea from here http://ryan.freebern.org/2005/02/08/google-maps-weather-bookmarklet

but several of the large map sites offer a free backend where you can just pass them the lat/long and they send you the weather, since thats already a feature I don't think it would be hard to do, Im going to check out the weather channels xml data feed http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html later today.

actually I just found this site and they use 3 weather services click anywhere on map thats resonable ( northern canada and middle of ocean doesnt return data) http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/index.jsp

termite's never go be done with us around here