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#1 2014-06-21 00:39:30
- riot
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- Registered: 2005-10-09
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Using TextPattern to manage locations on a Google Map?
I put together this little site for some friends but I’ve hit a snag. There’s a list of member bars that needs to be updated easily: http://dccraftbartendersguild.org/bars
I was hoping to appropriate Links for this. Members (Title) belong to Bars (Description), and they have a lat + long (URL ex. @38.905768,-77.042393). I’m sure there is some JS that needs to be involved, but I’m not much of a scripter.
Maybe someone knows of an easier way?
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#2 2014-06-21 12:48:36
- uli
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Re: Using TextPattern to manage locations on a Google Map?
I assume each bar is an article. Then you can proceed like so:
In the bottom region of your page there’s a script (the last one) whose crucial part looks like this:
['2 Birds 1 Stone', 38.914261, -77.032146],
['Ancora', 38.897765, -77.054842],
['Bar Pilar', 38.915152, -77.0317],
...
['The W', 38.896683, -77.033465],
['Wisdom', 38.88005, -76.984134] This structure can be filled with the output of an article_custom tag:
<txp:article_custom section="YOURSECTION" category="YOURCATEGORY" ETC.>
['<txp:title />', <txp:custom_field name="latitude" />, <txp:custom_field name="longitude" />]<txp:if_last_article><txp:else />,</txp:if_last_article>
</txp:article_custom>{Edited to wrap article_custom around the tags, to me it’s so clear what I mean ;) – Uli}
Last edited by uli (2014-06-21 14:50:18)
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Re: Using TextPattern to manage locations on a Google Map?
If you have increasing numbers of points to add to the map, it might be easier to use Textpattern to generate an XML page. You then point your Google map to the XML page to load all of the points and information for each one.
I had this working many years ago, but since then Google have upgrade the API for the maps and I haven’t figured out how to do it. I’m planning on getting around to it, but then I’ve been doing that for the best part of a year!
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Re: Using TextPattern to manage locations on a Google Map?
aslsw66 wrote #281584:
If you have increasing numbers of points to add to the map, it might be easier to use Textpattern to generate an XML page.
+1. I used to do this by making a Google-friendly .kml file, that worked.
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Re: Using TextPattern to manage locations on a Google Map?
You might also like to look at MarkerClusterer. The API’s quite terse, but there are plenty of examples about, and a page here with the front-of-house code in it you can steal plagiarise. It’s a blazingly fast library.
The json file that contains all the retailer location data was simply scraped from Textpattern as the other guys outlined using a <txp:article_custom /> tag to render all the custom fields and other article data in the right format. We used the indispensable adi_matrix plugin to manage the vast array of custom field data for all the articles.
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