Advice Needed: Google Map Integration - Search for Stores

By crbassett on 1 May 2007 at 16:20 UTC

Greetings,

I am in the preliminary stage of developing a Drupal-powered website for a medium-sized retailer. One of the things they would like to see is a "find a store" feature which would let the site visitor search for store locations and see a Google Map of the location. Perhaps something like http://www.apple.com/buy/locator/ (but not as fancy, I am sure).

I see a smattering of Google Map modules, and am in the process of reading the details on them. I am writing this post, however, to solicit some advice. I've never used these modules, and I want to get a handle on a good direction to go.

Therefore, here are my questions:

Has anyone else made something like this?
Has anyone seen or heard of a Drupal-powered example of this feature that I might be able to look at?
Any advice on which modules to go with? Any to avoid?
Any general advice or specific help? What should I watch out for?

Any and all help and feedback is greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Comments

wow

Marco Palmero commented 14 April 2008 at 02:09

I was looking at doing something like this for a search directory powered by Drupal...

Has there been a module for this built already?

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cfkearney commented 9 October 2010 at 00:40

I too am looking for the something similar.

I am brand new to drupal and have previously used google's api to map stores for a beverage company on a non drupal site. It was very limited and did not allow for much expansion/search/ease for client to add new stores. Not to mention you also had to use lat/long to get it to work with googles api and was not searchable.

So I too am looking for a drupal module that would allow for a user to enter store addresses in a table and then have it display on map, etc. Is the out there? Suggestions. It doesn't need to be google but it's nice to use their directions features. Seachable and or a list that you can break out (in db) into regions would be even better!