From Drupal Camp NYC 8

1. Mapping Drupal and OpenLayers

2. Why map with Drupal? Because you can use Drupal stuff for mapping Views, CCK, etc. Map social http://opengreenmap.org/greenmap http://nycwhisky.com But… MySQL is not a great spatial server

3. How to map with Drupal GMap & Location Been around since 4.7 Views integration Feature rich Huge module, opaque javascript Geo postgres, postgis integration Views integration Allie Micka is looking for clients to work on geo

4. What is OpenLayers? Open source JavaScript library An API to display map data Cross browser Except older Safari and Konquerer No server-side dependencies

5. Sites Using OpenLayers http://outsideindc.com/stumblesafely/ ???

7. Views

8. CCK

9. Features

10. openlayerscck

11. openlayersgeocoder

12. openlayersui

13. openlayersviews

15. Layers Raster & vector data Base Layers Background for data Google Maps, Open Street Map, custom Overlay Layers Views, KML, other?

16. Styles javascriptStyleMap objects icon, fill color, border, and radius of points or polygons Only for overlay layers Associate with layers in presets Some nice defaults in MapBox

17. Behaviors How users interact with the map Enabled on map presets to control Includes Zoom & pan Layer switching Clustering etc.

18. Source of js file option to build your own version of js for speed http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Profiles

19. Other Configuration API keys Permissions

20. Setting up content types Lat & Lon OpenLayers Geocoder

21. Setting up Views Data view Loads the appropriate nodes Fields containing title, popup, location Remember the style plugin! Use this to build a new map preset Page view OpenLayers Map style

22. Features Everything can be exported to features Code control Sharable