Google Maps + Gallery

$base=/gallery2/
$convert=convert "/usr/share/gallery2//gallery2/modules/map/basemarkers/marker_34_red.png" "/usr/share/gallery2/images/map/another/marker_ORANGE.png"

n.b. see the crazy hue numbers I'm using, not right yet but better for me than the defaults.

Second time lucky then , it works.

One more thing I forgot to mention. When using GxMagnifier on old or new versions with ie then the contents of the magnifier are blank. In firefox 1.0.7 the magnifier has the expected map contents.

Another thing, I checked the map on an old win98 PC and it reported this error and would not render the map page at all. ie5.5 no firewall, no antivirus, no nat.
Line: 382
Char: 13
Error: 'GMap' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://host/gallery2/main.php? g2_view=map.ShowMap
it worked file in firefox.

The basemarker files have improved, the new file marker.png produces various colours though the man.png still makes all red men.

I enabled XHTML checking on my site and the map page produces eleven errors on two lines.

hth Dave

edit:
I have done som more testing on Knoppix, Firefox, Epiphany & Mozilla display the map (and magnifier) page but Konqueror shows this error and no map (same error as ie 5.5)

Error: http://host/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap#: ReferenceError - Can't find variable: GMap

Regarding GxMagnifier...quoted from the site,
Browser Compatibility
The control has been loosely tested in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4. Since this was done entirely in my free time, and I don't have any free time, I anticipate issues will be raised (and hopefully addressed) in the forum.

And Google Maps support (from the FAQ):
* IE 5.5+
* Firefox 0.8+
* Safari 1.2.4+
* Netscape 7.1+
* Mozilla 1.4+
* Opera 8+

Google Local currently supports the following web browsers:
IE 6.0+
Firefox 0.8+
Safari 1.2.4+
Netscape 7.1+
Mozilla 1.4+
Opera 8.02+

Judging by the Google map furum, 'some' versions of IE5.5 will not work. Run a search "IE 5' on the map forum to see for yourself.

I tried to make the color of all markers as close as possible to the new marker, here they are.

Let me know if those work better and also if they function with older verion of ImageMagick (older than 6.2.2)

I'm going to be looking at other toolkits when the code commenting and the GxMagnifier options are in ...

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The Termite

          //setup the directory
          $mydir = dir($basegallerydir.'modules/map/controls/');
          //Loop trhough all file and folder in the directory
          while (($file = $mydir->read()) !== false)
           {
             //if the "file" is a folder and isn't "." or ".." then proceed with it
             if ((is_dir($basegallerydir.'modules/map/controls/'.$file)) and (substr($file,-1) <> "."))
                 {
                  //if the variable "controllist" already exists, just input our "option" statement to it
                  if (array_key_exists('controllist', $form))
                  {
                    $form['controllist'] = $form['controllist']."<option value='".$file."' ";
                    //if the current "folder" is the same as the variable "control" it must be selected then
                    if ((array_key_exists('controllist', $form)) and ($form['control']==$file)) $form['controllist'] = $form['controllist']."selected";
                    $form['controllist'] = $form['controllist'].">".$file."</option>";
                  }
                  else
                  //if it doesn't exists, create a new empty variable with our "option" statement
                  {
                    $form['controllist'] = "<option value='".$file."' ";
                    if ((array_key_exists('controllist', $form)) and ($form['controllist']==$file)) $form['controllist'] = $form['controllist']."selected";
                    $form['controllist'] = $form['controllist'].">".$file."</option>";
                  }
                 }
           }
          //Just make sure anything got created, if, not return an error that there is no control available
          if (!array_key_exists('controllist', $form)) {$form['nocontrols'] = 'There is no control available';}

Here you go :D

Also you will need to set the variables (controllist and control) in module.inc, ShowMap.inc and MapSiteAdmin.inc just for it to have default (empty is ok). you can follow what I have done with "usemarkerset" -> control and "markerset" -> controllist

At the end you will have a variable $form.controllist which will be enclosed in the .tpl in <select> HTML balise. and will display the list of controls available according to folders in modules/map/controls/ (for example)

Let me know if you need some more things to get it going. it seems to be very close to done

Good job !

See you
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The Termite

LOOOL, well I guess an easy solution would be to switch the "modulate" values in MapSiteAdmin.inc ... is there more bizarre behavious as far as colors ?

It's kinda annoying at this point that ImageMagick doesn't behave the same depending on the version. I'll be seriously looking into GD and others because that's not right :D

Maybe we can do some sort of a survey ?

Nick / Version of ImageMagick / OS / Colors (yes/no) / Correct Colors (yes/no) / Comments

Hello,

I just got around to fooling about with G2 and came across this discussion. I have a version of the Maps running at home locally - very coool indeed, but I want to be able to zoom and change the color of the pins - which seems possible - but not in the version that I have - I don't think so anyway. I also want to start playing around with the code, but I am not sure that I have the latest. I was wondering if there is a zip file available with the entire theme and add ons? Every time I try to download and unzip one of the posted attachments here, I get that it is an invalid zip file?

Thanks and Regards,

Canuck

Canuck249,
Please use Firefox to download any zip files in these forums and you'll have no problems.
The latest map-module is map-module-0.3.0.zip
Look for frequent updates posted by Termitenshort.

Hi Termitenshort,

That's the correct URL: http://k-one.no-ip.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap

DOGDOG

Greetings DOGDOG

If you cannot get imagemagick to work for you to create the pushpin markers then you could use these readymade ones by unzipping and then and copying them into the <name> directory under gallery2/images/map , where <name> is the name you give the set

http://gallery.menalto.com/files/map-marker-20.zip

beware that the files in the zip archive have lower case colour names and the map module is expecting upper case colour names so you may need to rename the files before copying them.

You will need to make the files have names using the following template:
marker_<COLOUR>.png , where <COLOUR> is the name of the colour of the marker.
Also the file colourlist will need to be in the directory (but you already have that) just check taht its contents matche the colours of the pushpin files you have, and edit it to suit.

hth Dave

Termitenshort,
Thanks for the code. It helps. This is a big learning curve for me.
I have not gaven up.... I have been very busy with other stuff (kids)... I hope to finish by this weekend.

Dave

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Gallery Frames / Mods || G1 Test Gallery

To be honest I'm not quite sure that it's do-able, the only thing that I can think of is to write a code that would grab the current size of the windows and do some math to make the height a percentage of what's left after the bar up top.

It sounds like quite some work, HTML is designed to adjust horizontally but since it's ok to scoll down, it's not really meant to stick to a specific height.

Other than that, I know it's do-able because when gallery is used embedded it resizes evrything to fit ...

See you

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The Termite

I have a couple of other quick suggestions:

Add map.registerKeyHandlers( window ); to ShowMap.tpl in order to give the users keyboard navigational abilities (i.e. use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus & minus keys to zoom in & out)

Also, the zipfile you provide for the module contains all lower-case filenames which breaks in the unix world since some of the files/directories are beign referenced as mixed case. For example. The zipfile contains showmap.tpl but it is being referencd as ShowMap.tpl.

The GxMagnifier icon seems to get overlaied by the map controls whenthe map size is set to small, despite what the GxMagnifier documentation states. A Workaround is to use a large mapsize or none at all.

Below is a diff to add the ability to change the width from a fixed-pixel size to whatever the browser width is:

../ShowMap.tpl ShowMap.tpl 
23c23
<     <div id="map" class="gbBlock" style="width: {$map.mapWidth}px; height: {$map.mapHeight}px; color:black;">
---
>     <div id="map" class="gbBlock" style="width: 98%; height: {$map.mapHeight}px; color:black;">

../Header.tpl Header.tpl 
14c14,21
< 
---
> {literal}
>   <!-- Make the document body take up the full screen -->
> <style type="text/css">
>     v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
>     html, body {width: 98%; height: 98%}
>     body {margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px}
> </style>
> {/literal}

I really wish there was an easy way to get away from a fixed-height map any into something a little more dynamic!

I've incorporated the above changes into my gallery map at http://billimek.com/jeff/gallery/map

Thanks,
Jeff

Thanks Jeff for all these comments

I'm gonna start working on the lowercase/mixed case deal. it's surprising that you see this behaviour, i'm using linux for my server and everything seems to work fine. But I will look at it to make sure everything is squared away.

I'd love to add the KeyNavigation deal, I didn't it was available even I was so concentrated on adding some other stuff. i'll be getting that in asap.

Also I will keep your changes for the fixed width/height coz it's on my todo to have the possibility to have a %age instead of fixed number.

Like I said before I know it's possible and as a matter of fact i found the property in JS that has the height and width of the window so it should be fairly easy to add this in

Thanks !

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The Termite

Hi guys! Tnx for this beatiful module

Read this forum many times but still gotta one question. I installed latest module and it works perfectly, also enabled short url,
so my map can be found at http://mysite/gallery2/v/map . I generated google key from my host address http://open.geof.hr
and it works nice with module.

Problem comes when im trying to use map theme.
As long as i know, using module one can have only 1 map, the one that it set as shorturl. Am I right? But using map theme
one can have as many maps as he wants. Now Im not sure which items show up, only items in current album, or all items that have GPS data.
Anyway, I created one album and set map theme 1.0.2 for it. But errors for API key comes up and there is no GoogleMap in the album. Can you take a look
at http://mysite/gallery2/v/GoogleMap .

any help is welcome, tnx again

SOLUTION A:
In order to do that you need to create a local folder under gallery2\modules\core\templates\blocks\ and then copy the file called BreadCrumb.tpl into that folder (don't move it, just copy)

When this is done you can modify the file in the local folder without breaking anything and it's easy to go back to the default version.

In the file just after
<div class="{$class}">
you can add a line:
<a href="{g->url arg1="view=map.ShowMap"}">Show me the map</a> >>

This line can be added anywhere and would just show a simple link that would display your map.

SOLUTION B:
Another solution is to use URL remaping I personnaly have an album called "vacation picture" and when you click on it it goes to the map. so on the top left I have gallery > vacation pictures > etc ...

When I click on vacation picture it shows my map. the only thing I did is that I added the following line to my .htaccess in the /galllery2/ directory
RewriteRule ^v/map/$ main.php?g2_view=map:ShowMap

The beginning is showing that the name of my folder is /gallery2/v/map/.

=> you need to enable URL rewrite to get this to work, but it's fairly easy to do.

You can choose whichever one you prefer

This could be a problem with the program you use to unzip the file. indeed after checking the files in the zip are mixed-Case like they are in the code and it doesn't seems to be any descrepencies so far.

If you get the files all lower case after unzip my guess is that something is wrong with the tool you use to unzip ?

let me know

If you look at the bottom left hand corner of the map in the following link, just to the right of the Google logo, then you will see a handy scale graph. I have no idea how this is produced but it would be a handy addition the the map module.
http://www.robogeo.com/latlonfinder/map.asp
The above map also does a half decent job of resizing to the current browser area.

Does anybody know how to set file and user permissions to ensure that the map module is properly installed? I find I have to manually copy the CustomFieldItemEdit.tpl when I install or upgrade the module, I do this using a remote shell.

One way in which the map module could be made more varsatile would be to be able to select or limit the image galleries which were searched to show the markers. This would make it more like the map theme. n.b. I too cannot get the map theme to work without generating google authentication errors, but it works nevertheless.

Two remaining problems with the module are a) Clicking on 'zoom in' when embedded in drupal does not work, the link becomes http://host/drupal/# rather than http://host/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap# b) the zomm in link does not work properly in Firefox.

Gallery shows the previous map module as being 0.3.0 and this one 0.3 though the downloaded zip archive is labled 0.3.1

What is the reccomended method to upgrade the map module? I de-activate the old one, then remove it. Then copy the new module onto the server and upgrade/activate it. I think the settings need saving after this process. One time I removed the old module but then I had to enter the settings from scratch - including the google key.

hth Dave.

The Apache user need to have right to write to the folder where the gallery is installed, when you install it under /var/www it's easy.
If you have it in a different folder (which I believe is your case if I remember correctly),

you need to do a ls -l to check who is the owner and which group has rights to it, then you can add the apache user to that group and then do a chmod g+w on the folder (/gallery2/modules/CustomEditField/templates/local/)

See you

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The Termite

Sorry about that it's my mistake i'll re-upload with the change. if anyone want to change it manually, it's located in the module.inc file the version is displayed there, changing the line cause the module to be uninstalled and show up as an "upgrade"

        
       $this->setVersion('0.3.0');

Should be

        
       $this->setVersion('0.3.1');

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The Termite

Termite,

Thanks for the map-module update! Checkout Amazon's (beta) AJAX powered map site. Click on a city, then move the big magnify icon around the map and watch what happens. Damn, thats so cool! http://maps.a9.com/

Some AJAX developer resources:
http://www.ajaxian.com/
http://prototype.conio.net/
http://script.aculo.us/

OK I have the dropdown of the various navigation/panning controls working on the admin page.
Now to implement it in the showMap.tpl file.....

The trouble I have is the mixing of php, smarty and javascript.

How does one include a php file in smarty tags that will also call another file?
Example: in ShowMap.tpl I want to call a file: /map/templates/controls/control.tpl
That file will in-turn call; /map/templates/name of control.tpl
the name of control is a variable called $map['MapControlType'] and can be called from /map/templates/ShowMap.tpl successfully.

Thanks in advance for the education.

Dave

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Gallery Frames / Mods || G1 Test Gallery

gowdy,
If you use the link "Get via a Map" under your Custom Fields tab then you don't have to surf off to another site to figure out the Lat/Long. This makes plugging in the lat/long coordinates all automatic for you.

Err, I just realized that feature was taken out due to the module replacing a few G2 theme template files.
I think Termitenshort will include instructions on how to manual add the link for those who want it in an upcoming map-module update.

Termite, I was just looking in the download archive to check for changes and to my suprise some of the files were dated 27/01/2006 !
hth Dave