A Google Maps solution for Plone

The main purpose of this product is to provide a very simple to use Google Maps integration for Plone. The following goals were set for development:

• Ease of use

  • Add locations to a folder
  • Set the view of the folder to Map
  • It figures out how to center and zoom the map automatically

• Flexibility for enhancement by using the Zope 3 component architecture
• Sane fallbacks when JavaScript is not available
• Clean separation of JavaScript, templates and logic
• Works on collections

Installation

Maps shows up in the "Add-ons" configuration panel.

Implementing custom content with map field

If you want to add location foeld to your custom content type, you should implement the following steps:

Add GeoLocation field:

from Products.Maps.field import LocationWidget, LocationField
from Products.Maps.interfaces import IMapEnabled, ILocation

MyContentSchema = ...

    LocationField('geolocation',
              required=False,
              searchable=False,
              validators=('isGeoLocation',),
              widget = LocationWidget(label = u'Event location'),
    ),
    ...

Update your class definition:

class MyContent(ATCTContent):
    """ my content description """
    implements(IMyContent, IMapEnabled, ILocation)

    ...

    def getMarkerIcon(self):
        """ Can be implemented as select field. See Maps.Location content """
        return "Red Marker"

Add following snippet to custom content view/template:

<div class="googleMapView googleMapLocation"
     tal:define="view context/@@maps_googlemaps_view">
    <dl metal:use-macro="here/maps_map/macros/markers">
    </dl>
</div>

Dependencies

• Plone 3.3 / 4.x

Credits

Created by Florian Schulze for Jarn AS in 2007.

Parts are based on:

• "ATGoogleMaps": http://takanory.net/plone/develop/atgooglemaps
• "qPloneGoogleMaps": http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/qPloneGoogleMaps
• "geolocation": http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/geolocation/

Development originally sponsored by

The "Student Services of Bergen, Norway": http://sib.no

"University of Oxford": http://medsci.ox.ac.uk (Medical Sciences Division)

Contributors for version 3.0

• Maurizio Lupo @sithmel - [email protected]
• Luca Fabbri @keul - [email protected]