Hi,

Just encountered this module as I was searching for a way to implement the GM V3 API styles.
I used gmap.module quite a bit but rather not use it anymore. The maintainer seems to busy with other stuff and shows little or no interest for bug reports and or patches to fix them or implement better functionality.

My question here is, is your module a GMap replacement? Can the same results be achieved like the same views integration, taxonomy markers, etc? Or am I completely missing the point and isn't this the aim of your module?

Cheers

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hutch commented

The answer to your question, is "Getlocations a Gmap replacement" is well sort of ;-)
At the moment Getlocations depends on the Location module which is also suffering from a slow development cycle and I am working on a replacement for location_cck, at the moment for Drupal 7 but I might backport to D6 if I can get it to work, no promises though.

I haven't looked at location enabled Taxonomy at all yet, my plan is to get things working for nodes first, then users and then Taxonomy.

What I do not intend to do is just replicate everything that Gmap/Location do, both are overly complicated with not enough control over the map itself. I have replicated the marker system though as it is pretty good and it is not too difficult to add your own marker sets. Geocoding on the other hand I am redoing pretty much from scratch to match what is available in Google maps v3. No more per-country geocoding for instance, that is just obsolete now. All the geocoding will be done from javascript which makes far more sense, especially as Google are introducing limits on per-day access.

Views is another area that I am redoing, the existing handlers are very complex and I'm sure that this can be done better.

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hutch commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)
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johnnydarkko commented

Great work with this project, it works great in 7.x. I tried using 6.x-1.1 and 6.x-2.0 on another site but it's not as easy to configure as the 7.x version.

The 6.x versions require location cck and I can't get getlocations to determine the location and I'm guessing it's because of location's admin configuration field "Location Chooser Macro" (located in admin/settings/location).

By default, this is set to [gmap] and this field looks like it depends on the gmap module: 

<?php
$map = gmap_parse_macro(variable_get('location_locpick_macro', '[gmap]'));
?>

So is this just a limitation with the 6.x versions? Or maybe I'm just confusing myself...

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hutch commented

Getlocations in D6 provides maps for locations made using location_node or location_cck (or anything else that writes to the location and location_instance tables), with or without gmap. It does not look at or touch the gmap macros.

What it probably is most useful for in D6 is providing Google version 3 maps using Views and it's own functions for providing maps using paths like 'getlocations/node/xxx' as documented in README.txt.

The D7 version is much more comprehensive, especially when using getlocations_fields (and the other submodules) because these modules are in active development whereas location/gmap are not.

The Getlocations maps in D6 and D7 have essentially the same features, furniture and markers.