Quick and easy D7 distro to evaluate Leaflet

Posted by cossovich on September 4, 2012 at 2:04am

Hey locators and mappers,

I recently evaluated Leaflet for a Drupal 7 project and it took a little while to figure out the right recipe to get locations with geocoding and mapping. I've coalesced some of that setup and configuration research into a distribution. It's only a sandbox project but I thought it might be useful for others looking to evaluate a Drupal GIS stack that includes:

also in the mix is Leaflet More Maps which adds some other map tiles into the mix.

The project page is here: http://drupal.org/sandbox/cossovich/1764636

I've also made a short screencast to demo a quick installation method using Drush Make: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lEaFGYA9g

(I've cross-posted to the Sydney group because I thought I might put myself down for a lightning talk about my hike through the Drupal 7 mapping wilderness at next months' meetup)

Categories: Leaflet, mapping

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Nice one!

Posted by rdeboer on September 12, 2012 at 5:10am

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Thanks for this lovely intro to Leaflet!

The video has limited scope, as it should, keeping it short and sharp.

A great follow-up video would be to show how to create maps with multiple location markers in Leaflet, as generated from a View (as in the Views module).

Leaflet easily handles thousands of markers on a map and with the Leaflet MarkerCluster module you get a great animated way of visualising these and drilling down into subsequent zoom levels.

Also, you're not limited to Geofield to do the storage of lat/long. See for instance IP Geolocation Views and Maps, which supports Leaflet, Leaflet More Maps and Leaflet MarkerCluster. It also has several map centering options (eg the visitor's current location as retrieved via HTML5) and the notion of a differentiator field, which allows you to colour-code the markers by taxonomy term, content type, any field from the View that the map is based on.

Cheers

Posted by cossovich on September 12, 2012 at 5:43am

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Thanks for the feedback. I haven't seen those other projects you've mentioned but I like the idea of extending the distribution and adding some more screencasts. I'm loving Leaflet!

Hi, congrats for your job,

Posted by xurxosanz on September 12, 2012 at 8:08am

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Hi, congrats for your job, it's really interesting

I've tried to download the distro but it fails dowloading the Leaflet patch. See http://pastebin.com/jfw2cnGz at line 63.

I'm using drush and drush-make right from Ubuntu 12.04 packages. What I'm doing wrong?

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It's hard to tell from the

Posted by cossovich on September 12, 2012 at 12:53pm

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It's hard to tell from the output. Can you run the drush make command again with the --debug option and paste that output?

Sure http://pastebin.com/Qn3h

Posted by xurxosanz on September 12, 2012 at 1:24pm

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Sure

http://pastebin.com/Qn3hD4tT

Error at line 1262

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I think Curl is having a

Posted by cossovich on September 13, 2012 at 1:33am

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I think Curl is having a problem with the parenthesis in the patch filename. Try installing wget (drush will use wget instead of curl if it's available):

$ apt-get install wget

You can confirm that curl is the problem by running the following:

$ curl -LOD '/tmp/curl-test.txt' 'http://drupal.org/files/[Upgrade_to_LeafletJS_0.4.x]-[1707882].patch'