Mobile Web App - Geotag, Map, Community

By sivation on 27 Apr 2012 at 23:50 UTC

Hi Guys,

I am pretty new to Drupal and I have big plans with it. But to see if my dreams are possible to realize I want to ask you a few questions about my project.
Ok, I am planing a website which includes a community. There will be a section in which community members can tag their actual location (GPS+HTML5) and enter information/fotos/videos about it. The saved locations will be visible for all visitors on a map and in a list. I want implement this special section into a mobile-app (for iOS and Android) that sends and receives it's information to/from my Drupal homepage.

a. Is Drupal the right choice?
b. Which modules would you suggest me to use?
c. Do you know any documentation/books/articles that could help me?

Thank's

Simon

Comments

Yes!

GreenSkunk

Great Valley, NY

commented 30 April 2012 at 21:01

Drupal is perfect for that.

Modules to check out

You'll need many great modules and a site to use as your Drupal sandbox but a module that will really interest you would be the GeoField module http://drupal.org/project/geofield
You'll have to read on and learn more about Drupal prior to making any module selections.

Videos on Drupal

Drupal Training Lullabot.com has great training videos for the beginner
BuildAModule.com - Great for learning just that coding and more advanced topics
Building Mobile Applications with Drupal from DrupalCamp:Austin. I haven't built a mobile app yet but there are several videos on this topic.
Search Vimeo.com and YouTube.com for specific walk-throughs.

Documentation & Books on Drupal

Documentation: Getting Started with Drupal
Books on Drupal. There are a bunch to choose from but "Using Drupal" is a great starting point. There are also many Drupal 7 books that are out.
"Mapping with Drupal" is a quick read but they give you great information for starting a mapping site.

"It is a damn poor day when you don't learn something!" - Mr. Jones, teacher

Thank you for your answer

sivation commented 16 May 2012 at 17:10

Thank you for your answer GreenSkunk.

I started reading the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 and Drupal 7 Web Development. Two great books. Besides reading I am experimenting with several modules. I found out that the biggest challenge will probably be to connect my - soon to be - native app with Drupal. Jeff Linwood gave me the great tip to use DrupalGap. I am sure I will have to get deeper into Javascript and PHP programming though. And I am not yet sure about it if it will allow me all the things I want to do.

I will give you a status update as soon as I am getting my head around things. If you come across any way to connect Drupal and iOS/Android Apps I would be very thankful if you would let me know about it.

So far my setup would be: Drupal 7 - Mobile App Generator - PhoneGap - DrupalGap