Geotagging and geolocation maps for Elgg [vazco gmap] v0.6
Release Notes
WHAT PLUGIN DOES:
- It adds location select capabilities to google-map, form and related plugins
- It adds reverse geotagging capability
- It can display locations on forms, group and user profile
- it can be easily adopted to add location (map/address) to any content
- It can be easily used to add geotagging to any Elgg element (photo, event etc.)
WHAT PLUGIN'S COMMERCIAL EXTENSIONS CAN DO:
- guess user's location by his IP address when selecting new location
- display maps straight on the user/group/custom form
- display all site users on a map
- take user's location on registration
- work on a large sites
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You can view this plugin in action on this page. You will also find more detailed description of the plugin and it's extensions there.
CHANGELOG:
v.06:
- cleared the code and it's structure
- fixed numerous minor bugs
- no hacks to forms plugin needed now
- faster loading time
- User's city is shown instead of 'Show on map' (didn't work for US before)
- address links are no longer clickable until they're fully loaded
- minor CSS improvements
- integration with google-map 0.92
- commercial extensions
HOW IT LOOKS:
After installing the plugin ,you're able to add a new fields to user profile, group profile and custom forms. When such a form is edited, user is presented with the 'select location' button.[plugin also adds this button for the google-maps widget] After the button is clicked, a location selector appears:
[buttons: 'jump to address', 'clear selection' and 'save location']
User has to choose his location on map, or by inputting his address. Afterwards, location is presented on user's or group's profile, in a form of a link with address:
After the link is clicked, the lightbox with map centered on this address appears:
To see more screenshots, got to this album
REQUIREMENTS:
- Elgg 1.5
- google-map plugin, ver. 0.92
- form plugin and related (flexgroupprofile, flexprofile), ver 0.82
- siteaccess plugin (only for the 'location on registration' extension)
INSTALL:
- install the required plugins from the list above
- place this plugin below the required plugins, and enable.
- go to the Administration->Forms management, and create user or group form
- add a field to this form, and name it 'location'. Choose the type of this field as 'Google Maps'
- save the form, and edit your group/user profile. You will see a location selector on edit page
- in case of any trouble, please refer to the forms documentation
Mike Zacher (vazco)
Project Info
Stats
- Category: Site admin
- License: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
- Updated: 2014-11-17
- Downloads: 8411
- Recommendations: 13
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Excellent Plugin.
Do you think in adding the feature of a large map where all users can add useful information of any type? For example: every member may add some information regarding his location, the history of it and most famous places in it.
@Anas Yes, in fact this map is already in development. At first it will be only a map of all members. Then, it can be extended to the map you're talking about.
have you thought about using loki? http://loki.com
Mark, I replied on your messageboard. I heard Loki is for non-commercial use only.
Does a location no longer show up for each member when viewing the members list when using this plugin?
@ Poeticnite It shows up. Make sure no other plugins change the way your user listings are displayed.
Now if this worked with the events calender.....
I'm having a few issues.
When I try installing either the forms mod or the Vazco_Gmap mod I get an Internal Server Error as soon as I drop the files into the mod directory and refresh.
Please help!
Thanks in advance.
@Jed someone already informed me he's interrested in funding the integration with the Events Calendar. You can expect it to be done in a comming weeks.
@beatlemanu I didn't hear of such a behaviour before. You may want to ask Kevin, author of forms plugin - maybe he heard of such a problem before.
mike how do you change the default location from the elgg address to some where else ??
also when viewing the members page there is a link to /pg/vazco_gmap/members/map but its redirecting me back to the main page...i think im missing something ... hmmm
@madshark the map is only in commercial version right now. Also, there's a whole module to set user's default location based on his IP address. Search for "Elgg, Switzerland" if you want to change it manually.
@ Anas
really great idea. i believe you mean sth. like that: http://www.youxcity.com
There you can mark points of interest and tell the others whats wrong there.
So you can show the mayor or the city council where is a pothole or an eyesore in your city.
PS: Can it be that the REQUIREMENTS-links are broken? Get an 404 Error.
hello
could anyone point me to the requirements new locations - hopefully they are still avail.
florian
PS @michi, Anas. Yep, http://youxcity.com is great.
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Hello,
I have a problem when I use “display:none”. Such as if I switching to “display:block”, the map in the <div> container does not load properly. Such as the map does load only the half of the map window. Can you please help me to solve this issue. Please refer the following code
<div style=“display:none”>
<?php echo elgg_view('input/location',array('internalname'=>'location')); ?>
</div>
Hi,
where i can get this 2 plugins?
Both bring a 404 ... :-(
Greetings,
Realtime
Realtimefreak,
please use Elgg's search (general search, not plugin search field) and search for "forms plugin" and "siteaccess plugin". The links are often changing on Elgg.org.
Hey Vazco, this work ok with 1.61?
yes, it works on 1.6.1
Right on, ill be purchasing the commercial version later my good man
Hi vazco
Great plugin
I found a little bug.
You forgot to write in the transaltion files this labels
'members:active'=> 'Active', 'members:map'=> 'Map', 'members:sort:newest'=> 'Sort-newest', 'members:sort:popular'=> 'Sort-Popular', 'members:sort:active'=> 'Sort-Active',
jbroide
Jose,
those are in the translation. Do you use the latest version? If so, please place the plugin at the bottom of the plugin list.
I didnt find them in the translation php. I have tha last version installed and the bottom. May be when I edited the translation file I deleted this lines. I will have a look in the originals.
JOSE
Vazco
Have a look in the en.php in the version you have here to download, you will see that these translations are not there.
jose
Jose, ok, thanks for pointing this out. I will soon upload a new version of the plugin (hopefully with a few new features). I will add translations to this new version.