Google Maps + Gallery

I took a look at that and I don't have that issue. As a matter of fact the "Route filters" are not stored in the database anymore rather created on the fly (as the item composing a route can change)

I have fixed the issue with only the last route filter working (missing "}") ...

I have also found 2 bugs with custom controls when used with "%" for the map size.

So here it is

Thanks I'll be checking on it

I just noticed a new API version was put up (1.30). Appears to work fine.

I am having trouble installing. Basically, if I load it up and none of the sub albums have GPS info entered, it shows the blank map centered on 0,0 at zoom level 15. However, when I enter the value of GPS to one of my subalbums to be 18.14,-65.43, the map disappears. I get no errors. Any ideas?

I have the map key entered.

Thanks,
Gabe

There is an error for any coordinates entered. I enter 0,0 or the coordinates someone else listed above for chicago, I still get the error.

If you only enter one coordinate AND have the "Auto Center and Auto Zoom:" checked ; you will get a error. Do you get a JS error? URL?

Dave

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thepeninsula,

Welcome to the club! I have a similar problem as you where I have markers in the USA, Hawaii, Japan, Thailand, Singapore. Panning the map around (East or West) also repositions (offsets) my markers. This issue has to do with the International Dateline. In the map module if you "Enable the Dateline Fix" this should prevent your markers from disappearing but they will still be offset when you pan your map East or West. This workaround is based on http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/dateline.htm

I've found some other possible workarounds browsing the Google Maps API discussion group but haven't researched them enough yet.
For now you could (1) reduce the size of your map, (2) set your Map zoom level to a lower value, (3) create Legends and/or create Group/filters to hide the marker offsetting.

True, the GPS coordinates from Google Earth are not the same as Google maps. GE uses DMS (Degrees, Minutes, Seconds) and Google Maps uses the decimal format.

I just upgraded to the actual Version .4.7c and I still can not get it to work,...
always when I hit ../gallery2/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap then I will recieve the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in .../gallery2/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 362

Can somebody can give me a hint what to do? What I could have wrong?

Thanks
bernie

I figured out the issue with my gallery. I used a ' in the name, and the map theme is not escaping that, so it breaks the javascript to use a '. So I guess it is a bug.

Actually this would not be a bug, Javascript terminates (or actually ends the command/starts next command) with a single quote/apostrophe. This would be the way that Javascript is expected to act.

We should escape the ' in the name or remove it altogether. So it is a bug in the module but not in JS.
Where is the name that uses the '? The item or the route or the filter? I can't seem to reporoduce.

I took a look at your gallery (top level) and upon selecting
Show Google Map from the Album Actions drop down, was presented
with this on the page . . .
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Photo Map
You do not have a profile setup for this website to use the Google Map
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Since you 'worked long and hard' I'd be happy to have a look
at your settings; but, you would need to PM me some admin
access.

I originally got this same message, but when I looked on Google's API pages it stated that the API is only good for one FOLDER meaning if your key was assigned to a /gallery and your map is located under /gallery/v/somefolder it will not work. This is contrary to what the documentation for the module states.

Of course I am not a shining example as mine is not working correctly yet, but I can see the map if I am logged into my site as admin

Here is a discussion laying out exactly what I referenced earlier.

Try it now. Sent you a PM.

Thanks, that seemed to take care of the big problem. I have one more question (and then I will leave you alone ). When someone clicks on the picture to go to the gallery, I wanted them to be taken directly to the Map. I am not sure if this is something that can be done without the Map Theme (which I deactivated earlier, but is still on my server).

The pictures by themselves do not mean much since they are from several different albums, I just wanted them in that album for the map.

I don't think I understand, completely, your question. Maybe
try activating 'Show Album Filters' in the map admin section
'Group/Filter Management'.

It is probably not quite what you want; but, will at least
filter the markers by album.

I do not use the theme you mention so cannot comment on it or
it's capability.

No, I think what I want to do is simply change the theme to the Map Theme instead of the Matrix theme and have that load by default. I will keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best!!

Thanks again for your help.

swordfish and others had a issue when selecting the custom navigation and using the legend at the same time:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/32642?from=1450#comment-158040

Attached are some files that will fix this issue as well as if your Gallery/CMS theme uses .png images.
/templates/MapHeader.tpl: I now only add the .htc fix to the map <div>. (this should fix other issues as well)
/templates/ShowMap.tpl: Give the map <div> a class.
/templates/blocks/Legends.tpl: I added a height and width to the legend down button. and added png fix to the group icon.

Please test and let me know if there is any issues.

EDIT:
see update below:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/32642?from=1550#comment-159333
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Ah HAH. Upgrade worked with the key generated for:
http://flatirons.thirstday.com/

I should have known better. My last batch of code was from just before Christmas, figured it was recent enough. Apparently you guys are burning right along, very nice. (I also like the addition of the 'Edit Profile' button.)

Many thanks for the helpful suggestions and sorry to be a such a loose nut behind the keyboard. (I'm blaming it on the flu)
Graeme

See PM.

Think I found a bug in 0.4.7c in that if you add coordinates for an album with no thumbnail, the module breaks. I get the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in <g2root>/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 340

The error relates to the following code:

$pointHash[$entity->_id]['thumbLink']=$gurl->generateUrl(
    array('view'=>'core.DownloadItem',
    'itemId'=>$thumbs[$entity->_id]->getId(),
    'serialNumber'=>$thumbs[$entity->_id]->getSerialNumber()));

Perhaps some preliminary checking can be added to fix this?

Also, when I try generating a route across the Pacific, the map insists on drawing it the 'long way' round. See here for what I mean. Any way of fixing this? Is it related to the dateline bug?

We could add some more checking but where do we stop? How often does a album not have a thumbnail?

I bet it is related to the dateline bug.
Can you add 2 routes and have them just stop/start at the date line? I know you don't have a item there at the date line but might be a workarround.

Dave

Thanks for all your help. Got problem with ' in description on the same images where coordinates are listed. Now the only two things I have to do is 1) figure out how to get my images on top of the map (should not be too difficult) and 2) figure out why some of my description boxes that appear when clicking on an image are SOOOOOO long. Some are sized correctly and others are as wide as my screen is (and at 1920x1200, that is saying something), the odd thing is how inconsistant this is. Also, on the ones that are SOOOO long, the text from my description "falls out" of the bubble but is still displayed over the map.

http://www.randy-wilson.com/gallery/v/travel/

Thanks again galmoid for all your help!

You're welcome. Hang in there. I'm messin' around with this
theme. I have (I'm sorry to say since you went through the
trouble of removing them (due to my last response) ) solved
the apostrophe problems. I think I may have a solution for
your lonnnnnng descriptions also. I also found how to move the
pics to the top as well as removing, the stuff above the map (I
think it is unnecessary; but, someone others may disagree).
I'll try and get it all cleaned up and post a 1.0.3a version
tomorrow. Oh yea, I also fixed the off-setting of the first/previous
links when you are viewing pics in the gallery (maybe no one else
noticed this).

I'm pretty sure that, at least you, will like it.

EDIT: I pulled the zip file pending contact
with the owner of this theme. I'll update us when
I received word.
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I hope the owner of this theme does not mind what I
have done.

I have worked on the map theme (not to be mistaken for
the Google Map module). There are several things that I
fixed and enhancements (open to interpretation ) I
have made. I changed the version (in theme.inc) to
be 1.0.3c (it was 1.0.3 even though the zip file
that I downloaded said 1.0.3b). Going to Site Admin
and selecting Themes/All Themes will ask that you
upgrade and activate the map theme if you replace your
existing map theme directory with the one in the zip
file.

- Fixed a problem where apostrophes that are used in
titles, summaries or descriptions would break the
javascript because they were not being escaped.

- Fixed a cosmetic problem where the navigation links
that appear when viewing the pics (actual pics in your
image gallery) would get off-set by one line between
the link on the left and the link on the right (maybe
nobody ever noticed this).

- Fixed the infowindows where long descriptions (and I
suppose summaries) would cause the infowindow to display
poorly. Di this by "table-izing it. There -is- some
funky stuff that seems to happen to infowindows when a
description/summary is large. Sometimes there is an
"artifact" that appears at the bottom of the infowindow.
Sometimes the infowindow has whitespace in the lower
portion; but, will size itself correctly if another
pics infowindow is opened and then the other re-opened.
If you re-open it immediately it gets messed up again.
I know my attempt at an explanation is weird; but, so
is the infowindow. This strange behavior is not limited
to the map theme. Seems that similar behavior happens
with infowindows in the module. This all relates to FF.
IE appears to handle it a little better.

- Changed the navigation thumbnails to be 80x60 (they
look better for me) from 80x80. You can easily change
this size by editing you theme.css file where you will
find '#customthumbs' at the bottom. I think the settings
are self-explanatory. I also added 'padding: 1px;' to
this entry to give a slight separation to the thumbs.
If you remove the width and height settings, the
navigation thumbs will be displayed the same size as
your normal thumbnails (the size that is seen in the
infowindows).

- Changed the operation of links that appear in the
infowindows to operate like the 'g' infowindows in
the Google Map module. They will open in a new window
instead of in the current window. Clicking on any links
in any infowindow will always open in the same new
window if it is not closed.

- Descriptions or summaries are contained in a div that
has a width set to 300px (seemed to work nicely for
long text).

- Removed the stuff above the map to give a cleaner
look. I like it; but you may not.

- Added a configuration item to the theme admin screen
to place the navigation thumbs above or below (top or
bottom) of the map. It is 'Place custom thumbs above
or below map' (There is a call to 'translate' this; but,
I know nothing of doing such things and have no idea if
this call will cause problems when the theme is used
under a language other than English. I just copied an
already existing entry and changed some stuff.

The files that I have changed:
** Note: these files are a mixture of unix and dos
files. The unix files will not display properly in
windows notepad; use wordpad instead.

- Created a templates/local directory where the .tpl
files I changed (theme.tpl, album.tpl, photo.tpl) are
located. The original .tpl files are still in the
templates directory. You can replace the original files
in the templates directory with the ones in the local
directory if you like (and then delete the local
directory)
- theme.css (original file is saved as theme.css.orig)
-- Note: theme.css.old was already there
- theme.inc (original file is saved as theme.inc.orig)

Sorry for the long wordy post (too much no-doz, again).

I sure hope that this works on systems other than just
mine and doesn't break anything anywhere. Use it at
your own risk.