Drupal Meetup: Mapping in Drupal 7 with OpenLayers
- Sep 27, 2012 · 6:30 PM
Mapping in Drupal 7 -- Create interesting, attractive location-based maps, configure a map to use different layers/tilesets (even add your own!), use maps to input location-based data, and create maps in Views that show multiple location markers with themeable pop-up dialogues and links to content pages. Toolset: OpenLayers, Views and the Geofield CCK field.
Renee is a CMS Developer and Webmaster at UBC's Department of Computer Science, and co-owner of Panic Stations Media, a tiny multimedia consulting and development shop. She has spent over six years designing and deploying Drupal sites for mid-size departments and businesses, and has spent ten years working as a web developer in the education and non-profit sector. This May she spent a month in Botswana, Africa, deploying a Drupal site on behalf of a support organization for kids with HIV/AIDS; as part of that project, she implemented OpenLayers so that geographical info could be easily added by novice users as new club locations were added.
Lightning Talks
Attendees are invited to share their experience by giving a 2 to 4 minute presentation on any topic of interest to the Drupal community. If you want to use a laptop to show a website or control panel please be sure you have the necessary cable (vga) to connect to an overhead projector.
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Mavaddat
September 28, 2012
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Renee S.
Hey folks, here's a link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=197OCWHG0S9GtC2O-bd2GBoxsrGn28RcKzeGWPxb1IXQ&start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000 Thanks all for coming!
September 28, 2012
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Johannes
Great presentation from Rene. Exactly what I was looking for. A simple introduction and discussion of major pain points.
September 28, 2012
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A former member
AV problems made it difficult to see the material and a pointer to the presentation would have been helpful. But interesting topic.
September 28, 2012
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Richard E.
If you can't attend (and even if you can), I recommend Mapping with Drupal from O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021230.do The ebook is a good bargain ($10), and short (150 pages) and it's a good reference to going the OpenLayers and non-OpenLayers routes. I breezed through it on the first read, and it came in handy when I couldn't remember that one thing that gets a lot of people stuck with OpenLayers (which is you have to add a data view).
September 26, 2012
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A former member
Have used OpenLayers in one of the project I've done, and would love to learn more. Unfortunately I've got commitment tomorrow. :(
September 26, 2012
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Susie L.
Hi everyone. I am looking forward to learning more about OpenLayers and meeting some of you. One a side note - I know of a job opening for a Back-end Drupal Developer. If anyone's interested to find out more, please grab me to chat more.
September 14, 2012
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Renee S.
I'd love to do a lightning talk about deploying Openlayers in my month as a web developer in Botswana in May!
September 12, 2012
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Renee S.
Sure -- I could go over setting up Openlayers maps in D7? Creating content type with geofield map, creating view to show multiple geofield, setting up map layers? The implementation on the site I did is fairly simple, but there are definitely some gotchas that took some time to figure out :)
September 13, 2012
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Steve K.
that'd be great! want to email me a brief description of the talk and a person bio so that I can post it for the event? Thanks for the talk!
September 13, 2012
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