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Beautiful, Easy Maps in Drupal using Views and Mapstraction

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I've been asked about the Archdiocese of St. Louis's online parish search mapping functionality enough times that I finally made a quick video walkthrough of how it was done. The video below explains it all—basically, we use the Location module to attach addresses to nodes and geocode (get lat/lon) the addresses, and we use Views + Mapstraction to make the spiffy maps all over the site.

The functionality was originally set up by the kind folks at Palantir, and tweaked a bit over time by me to make what you see today.

You can watch the video in HD on Vimeo, to see fine details. (Recorded with iShowU HD).

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About Drupal Sun

Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:

  • Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
  • Facet based on tags, author, or feed
  • Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
  • View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created

See the blog post at Evolving Web

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