Google Maps + Gallery

Ok, Today is the release of version 0.4.6 as promised

2005-12-17: v 0.4.6 (ehd) Changes:

        - Made the legend a block as well (left sidebar)
        - Added the ability to enable/disable "export to GE"
        - finished the upgrade path
        - Route feature enhancements
              o Rewrote the route feature to use itemID instead of coordinates
              o Added possibility to use an Item more than once in a route
        - Enhanced the filter feature
              o Route "filters" are created on the fly
              o Possibility of Album filters (only show items with coord in the Album and subalbums)
        - Added a Google Map Key Management feature.
        - Added the possibility to use % for map Height and width

Please note the following (important):
- I've try to make an automatic way to upgrade from the old route to the new routes but it does not seem to work
-> you will have to re-create your routes manually unless you figure out the code changes in Module.inc (sorry)

- The new way of managing the Google Map key, invalidate the old key so you will nedd to re-enter your key to get the map to display.

- The "%" feature actually change the size of the <div> where the map is dynamicaly accroding to the size of the window. It is possible that funny behaviour occurs in that scenario (I haven't experienced any but one never knows ...)

One more thing Please go to the Map Module Gallery , to add you picture (or a random picture) with your coords so that we have everybody there (remember I broke the site and everything got wiped out)

Enjoy !

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The Termite

Termite

Nice work! However, after upgrading from 0.4.5d I have that same bug that occured in 0.4.5d. Think I upgraded from cvs that time. I remember you posted a patch in this forum (around 10Dec) that fixed it. The error prints at the top of my map page.

Warning: array_key_exists(): The second argument should be either an array or an object in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/gallery2/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 945

Warning: array_key_exists(): The second argument should be either an array or an object in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/gallery2/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 962

EDIT: Nevermind fixed it myself. Appended and $file != "CVS")
to ShowMap.inc on lines 942 and 959.
Did this not get committed to CVS?

I am in the process of moving to a new host. I've installed the latest version of the module. Since i didn't transfer the domain name yet, i am using the gallery by IP address. I created a new Google Map API key, but i keep getting the following error:

any advice?

thanks

What do you mean about not being able to select them?
In g2_PluginParameterMap the new g_parameterName is MapKeys.
Do you see MapKeys?
What is the URL to your map?
By the way, the profiles work perfectly for me. I have created
four of them. They all show up in the dropdown box.
Maybe try this in ShowMap.inc (it will probably mess
up some font formatting on the page; but, it will
print the severname at the top of the page.

/**
 * This implements the Google map view
 *
 * @package Map
 */
$serverName=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
print("servername = $serverName<br>");

After you determine the servername, add a profile
using the reported servername and use the map key that
you obtained for your IP address URL. I just tried
this and it worked.
Don't forget to remove the print statement, etc. you added.

oh, ok. i do see MapKey record having some values. Here is the link to my gallery http://209.123.15.121/gallery/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap after i looked at the html source and notice that "key" value is not populated at all.

on my old account and older version of Map module it generated the following string

I've tried your suggestion. The key is still empty in the HTML source.

As for the first question, what do i mean by "unable to select the other profile" here is what i do. I create another profile. Let's say "pofile 2", then select it in the drop down and hit "save". the page reloads with the first one selected again.

Thanks for looking into this.

* What did 'print(servername)' say?

I suspect your actual servername does not match any of the
any of the servername entries in your profiles. So no map key
is returned.

It is not necessary to select a profile. You just need to add
the ones you need and then, depending on the servername
being used to access the site(map), a key is returned (the one
that matches the servername). The idea is to be able to
access the map via different servers (names) and have the proper
key automatically used. For instance, a different map key is
necessary if you access the map via www.xxx.xxx on port 80 (the
usual http port) as compared to accessing the map via
www.xxx.xxx on port 443 (the secure ssl port). Creating two
profiles, one for port 80 and one for port 443 (both with
the same servername (different profile names of course) would
permit the proper key for each to be used automatically (you
need not do anything other than create the profiles).

* What did 'print(servername)' say?

kilativ, galmoid is right, you do not need to select a prfile. the all idea if to be able to generate as many profile as you may need and let it select the right one by itself.

The way it works is it determines the server name and port currently in use (i.e. 209.123.15.121 and 80) and then it cycle looks at all the profile created and select the one that have matching servername and portnumber.

The key is selected from that. If you do not have a profile created with the right paramters, it will return an empty key (-> your problem)

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The Termite

thank you, galmoid!!! now it makes sense. It did print out my domain name, even though i didn't transfer yet. I tried your suggestion to use that key, but it didn't work the first time because i didn't realize that i should also enter the same domain name in the profile. After you explained how it works it took me 10 seconds to make it work.

Thanks again!!!

You're welcome. Glad you got it working.

totally off topic and inapropriate ('kidding) the good news is that thanks to that post I discovered
GalleryUtilities::getServerVar

and so I updated the code with it (better to use the built-in stuff)

Also got me thinking since there is no pressing needs in terms of functionality, I'm gonna ask bharat for a code review.
I'm sure there is many changes to make to get it validated so

Also aparently 1.29 still works as it is. So I made the change and I've uploaded it to CVS

Also, I have just found a couple of bugs in the filter feature.

- After upgrading to version 0.4.6 you can go ahead and delete all "automaticaly" generated filters in the admin panel
-> those are the one that start with "Route:"

- When you have no filter create beside the automatic Album & Route ones, some error display at the top of the Map and also the "Default" filter does not show up.
-> Fixed in CVS

See you
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The Termite

You can use a Google Key for the host only (i.e. http://www.thalions.com) and then create the related profile.

Name : whatever you like
Host : www.thalions.com
Port : 80
Key : ABQIAAAA6XFJQ83bN2_AljUYzYTYDxSixjjG2qBjWhq6GiWOHdhA7IyBlhQ-LsDo4rngYPG55LG0fAEZq28uwA

See you

where do I execute the print(servername) command? Is that a PHP command, or can I put that in smarty tags somewhere?

The way I read the Maps Key generator page, you have to generate a new key for each directory on your webserver.
For my directory info again, my main installaion is
www.thalions.com/gallery2
The sub-installation I want to use the maps on is
www.thalions.com/blogs/joe/gallery2

I've generated and tried all the following directory/key pairs and they all give the same error:
http://www.thalions.com - ABQIAAAAAE3F6I3ENVXn_6Axrlg3URSixjjG2qBjWhq6GiWOHdhA7IyBlhQg879Y5qwxjV6tTEdNzukLHheFCQ
http://www.thalions.com/gallery2/ - ABQIAAAAAE3F6I3ENVXn_6Axrlg3URRa3Bgk2domX6ql-usSRhEqcD2PWRQlpOjOJcGDkTn4qgixnk0jPn8BGw
http://www.thalions.com/blogs/joe/ - ABQIAAAAAE3F6I3ENVXn_6Axrlg3URTJ_kvQ8u5p55_J_JbH09uQ30iXShRe_Y-6gAUy_pq2CX8ZiEfaMPuwmw
http://www.thalions.com/blogs/joe/gallery2/ - ABQIAAAAAE3F6I3ENVXn_6Axrlg3URQVt9WuVMxgB1qaKupKOqvuKYJ87RTg2-S2Y_-f-rK8oa8co3SBP9BeRw

I've tried all 4 of those on both of the gallery installs at both locations with no result

edit - and I agree with ^ too about the profile manager interface. It's unclear how you're supposed to use it after you enter profiles, not to mention you can't edit them (not that you would need to after you find the right configuration, but i'm doing a lot of "add" then "delete"ing of profiles....

On a completely different note, I've got the tracklog tracer working

Here is the result of the coalcreek deal, looks nice now

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The Termite

Hey man, that's great. Did you monitor FF memory usage before
and after the display? Was it sluggish at all? Did you use all
of the points (6000+)?

It sure is a complex track.

Well the memory usage seems fine on FF 1.5 and yes I have traced all of the 6000+ points. In fact I made it now so that you can have any garbage you want in the file, it will go out and trace it cleanly.

I've tried with all the tracklogs I have (3 only ... :D) and it seems fine at this point.

It's splitted in different subsection:

First it looks for TRK
Then it spilt the tracks in TRKSEG
Then if the track is longer than 499 points, it splits it in chunk of 100 and create a last polyline at the end with the remainder points. It also akes sure that the "pieces" of polyline are overlapping so it looks line one

It's probably not perfect at this point but I'll be looking at making it even better

I will implement that in the next release coz it's cool :D

hmm, well when i go to the Maps Key generator, I get the one that I pasted earlier, not the one that galmoid gets.... that's weird. Would that have anything to do with the fact that I'm doing this in Germany? Does the API TOS say anything about differences between the US and rest of the world?

Either way, using the key that you generated still gives an error.

What's worse, when I enter the printserver code into the .inc file, this is the output I get when viewing a map:

You can see that the server name is blank, and i get a whole list of errors. When I remove the printserver code, I still get those errors. I had not seen those errors previously because I was testing the key by using the "center on" map on the Admin page (which doesn't generate those PHP errors) instead of the "Show google map" option for the albums.

I'll create an account and PM you the info termite.
thx a lot

Not at all . . . I got a kick (laugh) out of it. It is
very similar to my humor (as you have seen in the past).

joelion,
Addressing your desire to hardcode the map key . . .

Create a local directory in templates (modules/map/templates/local)
Copy templates/MapHeader.tpl to the local directory
Edit templates/local/MapHeader.tpl
Change:

<!-- Google Maps script -->
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=1.28&amp;key={$map.googleMapKey}" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- This is mostly boilerplate code from Google. See: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ -->

to:

<!-- Google Maps script -->
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=1.28&amp;key=PUT_YOU_HARDCODED_MAP_KEY_HERE" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- This is mostly boilerplate code from Google. See: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ -->

Substitute your map key for PUT_YOU_HARDCODED_MAP_KEY_HERE

Uncomment the lines you commented in ShowMap.inc

Does this help?

Hi guys,

Just trying 0.4.6.

Looks good, although I've come across at least one thing that appears to have regressed since the previous version.
The filters on the map page no longer seem to respect the zoom level originally set on the filter; e.g. I've got a filter for New Zealand. When I choose the filter, the map will become centred on New Zealand, but it doesn't zoom in to the level I had specified for the filter.

Another thing is the Get via Map utility when working with filters. The map shown for choosing your filter is only about 100 pixels wide and tall on my site! Get via Map seems to work okay with albums still.

Also, clicking on an album listed in the Filters combobox results in a blank page in my browser.

I like the % setting for the map size though!

http://gallery.ildica.com/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Conor

Termite, you have outdone yourself. You think it's cool -and-
you don't even have a GPS! Looks like you'll be spendin' a
few bucks soon.

I'll look about for some more track files when I get a chance (so you have more than three ;-) )

Sweet, thanks I had that issue once and never had time to get it resolved

I'll get that added to the code this week

I wish I could, if you guys don't know what to offer me for christmas you know now :D

Nice, I sure would like to do more testing.

Termite,
I found the mother of all tracklogs. On THIS page,
above the story, click on 'GPS data' to get to the tracklogs, etc. These folks are -real-
troopers (and you thought my little 18 mile hike was something!). I would have
just posted them here for you; but, they are too big, I think.

The tracklog adventure continues
After a first try I get the following results.

Both IE and FF parse the file and put it in an array in 45 seconds (which requires making the "maximum execution time for script" higher than 30 sec ...)

After 2 Minutes FF 1.5 crashes and gives up

IE display the track after a total of 6 minutes ... the problem is that each zoom change basically takes 4-6 minutes to display. So it wokrs but is totally unusable at this point. Drag & drop is extremely slugish ... of course

Also during the all process the CPU is 100% but my current machine is 3 years old (athlon XP 2000+ @ 1.5Ghz). I will test on a much faster machine.

Sometime on IE I get a "script is taking long, do you wish to cancel or continue ?" (to wich I answer cancel of course

Bottom line for test 1: I need to figure out some optimization of the display code

Also check out the memory usage for IE (from 9M to almost 190M) and the track itself displayed !!

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The Termite