Google Maps + Gallery

Now THAT is the weirdest thing ....

Hello,

Hello,

I am trying to get this up and running. I have a few odd things happening - maybe someone can help me out.

Here are the details - ImageMagick 6.2.5, Map Module 0.3.1, Map Theme 1.0.2

I can not seem to create any push pins. I get "Unkown Error Creating...." I have tried all the tricks I could find on this board to no avail? Any suggestions.

Also, it seems I still need to have the Google Map Key in the albums even though I put it in the Map setting in the admin page - is this right?

My map seems to ignore all the settings I make in the admin page regarding zoom, lat long to center on - this seems to mean to me that my site is completely ignoring it for some reason?

I don't get the zoom feature even though I have the Map Module installed. Do I need to do something to enable it for users?

I have tried to figure it out for a week now, and I am stuck. Any ideas? Any help people could suggest would be great.

Regards,

Matt

The Map module and the theme are separated.

The Theme display picture on a map for a specific album (the one to which you apply the theme to) and the module creates a map view to disply all pictures and album that have GPS coordinates setup.

Now that this is said, it's pretty obvious that when you are using both, there some kind of overlap

The module enable a display call ShowMap that can be viewd byt /pathtogallery/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap

Now for the problem you are having with the marker creation it's usually related to imagemagick. The "convert" tool needs to be in the path for the module to function right.

If from the command-line you can run "convert" and it runs, then there is something weird with PHP that it cannot get to the tool.

For the time being you can specify the path to your install in the MapSiteAdmin.inc @ line 534

$command = 'convert '.$modul.$resize.' "'.$basegallerydir."modules/map/basemarkers/".$basemarkername.'.png" "'.$basegallerydir.'images/map/'.$setname.'/marker_'.$color.'.png"';

Just input the full path of the "convert" too in front of convert.

That also makes me think that I could gather this setting from the "imagemagick" module itself ... I guess I'll be looking into that :D

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The Termite

You're not a moron, this just prove that I need to put more comments in the code ;)

I have a made a quick update to the MapSiteAdmin.inc file that gather the ImageMagick path from the ImageMagick module and then chdir to it to create the marker and chdir back to where it was before....

Right after line 529 add the following:

	        foreach (array('path', 'jpegQuality', 'cmykSupport') as $key) {
		list ($ret, $magic[$key]) = GalleryCoreApi::getPluginParameter('module', 'imagemagick', $key);
		if ($ret->isError()) {
		    return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
		           }
		       }
                 $oldcwd = getcwd();
                 chdir($magic['path']);

and then right before

                 if (empty($error)) {$status['generated']=1;}

you can add

                 chdir($oldcwd);

Let me know if it fixes your issue

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi you’re my only Hope

Ok guys I know every one hates to educate the new guy but I am really confused. What do I need to get this thing working? I installed both Map Module 0.3.1 and Map Theme 1.0.2. DO I need them both? What is the difference? I just want to make a basic album with the linked pictures like you see in the demo link provided with Map Theme 1.0.2. Once I installed it how do I link the pictures to the map? Finally Every time I go to an album where I have set the map theme as default I get this error:

“The Google Maps API key on this web site was register for a different web site. You can generate a new key for this site at http://www.google.com/apis/maps.

Can you explain me exactly how the multi-site install works and also how your setup is as far as folder goes ?

I'm trying to figure it out with the doc, but I'm starting to think I'm retarded :D

Thanks!
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The Termite

Thanks Chris, this definitively shade some light. My guess is that in the config.php you have a line at th bottom that specify the path to the codebase right ?

like $gallery->setConfig('galleryBaseUrl', 'http://absurdistan.org/gallery2/');

So i'm gonna add a quick check for this variable existence and value.

thx
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The Termite

I wouldn't put too much work into making the custom "group" tag thing work. The flickr/virtual album request is #2 on the list of top requested features for Gallery. These tag/virtual albums would duplicate the feature that you're proposing. While we can't be certain, the devs seem reasonably willing to fulfill the top requests.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1204624&group_id=7130&atid=357130

It shouldn't be too much work but there would be definitively some overlapp there. It should be fairly simple to adapt it later on when the "tag" feature is on for virtual albums

Do you know if there is some beta or a beginning of code available ?

If not, maybe I can starting looking into it and see what happen. I guess I don't want to code it it doesn't answer to the original idea ;)

Also today there is some confusion betweem the map=module and the map-theme, maybe this feature will help in having only one solution instead

Idd! That's exactly the line that's there... if you have some (even very-beta) code, I can give it a try if you want!

Thanks for the help,
Chris.

Ok, I think this would work great then:

In MapSiteAdmin.inc
Around line 77 and 267 you should find a line like this:

$base = $urlComponents['path'];

right after this line, add the following:

$baseURL = $gallery->getConfig('galleryBaseUrl');
if (!empty($baseURL)) $base = $baseURL;

In ShowMap.inc

Same thing the line should around line 64

If it all work better for you, I will make this update, add floridave's code and I added a few options to the Admin panel and fixed the issue with the marker's size and colors.
Also I've created a couple more markers

Sometime today or tomorrow will be a quick update :D

After trying the code for the controls I add the following on first access to the AdminPanel:

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 211

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

Notice: Undefined index: MapControlType in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\gallery2\modules\map\MapSiteAdmin.inc on line 205

I solved it by adding

          if(!array_key_exists('MapControlType', $form))       $form['MapControlType']="Small";

Before line 196

I hope this isn't messing anything up, everything else is perfectly fine on my end, I'm gonna bundle up the all thing together for 0.3.2 version

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The Termite

Can you expalin this new feature? Or this this the GxMagnifier themeing?

Dave

Thanks for the new release! Everything seems to work fine, except for the zoom controls. I took a quick look in the generated html code, but didn't immediately see where the controls are called (and thus couldn't figure out if it was a problem similar to the multi-site thing). Perhaps somebody can take a look at my map?

In the configuration I tried several different Map Control Sizes / Types, but none of them show anything on the map... for the moment I selected 'roundblue'.

I also have a couple of feature requests that I will post in seperate message later today.

Cheers,
Chris.

Also, I was about to add the "characters" to be displayed in the markers and I thought that It might be a better idea if it was specifi to each album/photo with some default.

I.E. : In the Admin Panel you would choose the default color, shape, character for photos and albums and then you can specify the same settings in each CustomField.

What do you think ? Should we keep the existing or should we instead has the markers created on the fly for each item ?

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The Termite

Hi guys, this are the warnings i get when using 0.3.2

Warning: loadtemplate(***/gallery2/modules/map/templates/controls//control.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ***/gallery2/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 231

Warning: loadtemplate(): Failed opening '***/gallery2/modules/map/templates/controls//control.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/php/includes:/www/web/htdocs/klase/') in ***/gallery2/modules/map/ShowMap.inc on line 231

there are some other issues too.
1) Settings for control type (big/small/none) are not being remebered when press save buttun in GoogleMap
module settings (only in v0.3.2, in 0.3.1 works ok)
2) icons in map dont show up, or only the magnify icon is shown.

Same happens in my gallery. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Yes I think I know what your problem is, try to go back to the AdminPage and do a save, it seems that it doesn't gather the Marker size and so is unable to display them correctly ....

Basically you have an erro showing up at New Gsize(,) ... the values should be the ones from the getimagesize. I'll take a look as of why it happened

This is not currently a feature and would indeed be good, It's currently on the todo (it shows up as grouping) and hopefully will be there soon

Now, I have checked the file over and over and I see no reason for it to not work ....

basically what's happenning is that it does not populate the size of the markers and so fail to create any marker which leads to the Javascript to fail and so the map doesn't display ....

I guess the bottom line is that it should just work , the same function is used in the AdminPanel to display the "current size" of the basemarkers...

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The Termite

I have tried to gather the sizes of the markers in a different way, you just need the enclosed ShowMap.inc file, overwrite the existing and please let me know if it works better for you guys...

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The Termite

Cool, I guess I will replace all 0.3.2 module with the one including this file for new comers

djrm2 Can you show me a screenshot of the placement problem ? I'd like to check something ...

Termite, see your PM for weblink showing problem, Dave

It does! Thanks...

I have two feature requests that I would like to share:

1) I was thinking together with a colleague about different ways of making the map module more friendly towards the very typical high concentration of markers in a particular area (e.g., your home country). We came up with the following... it would be nice to be able to define multiple maps, all with their own configuration settings: the setting we have now (markers, zoom level, initial center, ...), plus a name, plus a list of albums we want on this map. I could imagine that one would be able to specify something like A,B+,C*; meaning album A, album B and its childern, and album C and all of its ancestors (there is probably a better format). Additionally, we could give a map also a coordinate (its center point?), and allow to add this to other maps (so, A,B+,C*,map_D).

This setup would allow us to do the following. Make a world map and put all your travelling albums on this world map. On your home country (where you typically have many different albums) you put only a link to a second map. When you click on this map, the second map with only the albums of your home country opens, zoomed in and centered on your home country.

2) Would it be possible to allow for routes? I often have albums that refer to a tour (a hiking tour or trip through multiple coutries) rather than one location. I would find it great if it were possible to put a set of coordinates that are shown as a marker on the first coordinate, then line segments connecting all the coordinates in order, and finally a second marker at the last coordinate. Does the google api allow for this? Would it be difficult to implement?

Would any of these features also be useful to anybody else?

Best regards,
Chris.