[support] Gmaps help

[Anisa]

Jacob, thank you for your message.  Do you know of any how to guides that
you can recommend?

Anisa.

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Jacob M. Roufa <jacob.roufa at gmail.com>wrote:

> You'll want to install gmap and views (and any requirements as well) and
> make a new nodetype or two to associate location information with. Then
> create a view to list all nodes of type (locative nodetype) on the map.
> Displaying it on the map how you like will be a project in theming.
>
> Hope this helps at all...
>
> Cheers!
>
> -- Jacob M. Roufa
> (208) 557-9390
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> On Aug 27, 2010 11:10 PM, Anisa <mystavash at animecards.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, all!  Thank you for your support on my previous email.
>
> I'm trying to understand how to use the Gmaps module.  I really don't
> understand anything, so it wouldn't be effective for me to waste everyone's
> time on the list.  What I would really appreciate is if you could point out
> some good current HOW TO guides.  I have been looking around, but everything
> seems rather old. (drupal 5, often!)
>
> This is what I want to do:
>
> I have a list of places I have been and places I want to go to.  I have
> their addresses and names.  Places I have been I have multiple pictures of.
> Places I haven't, I have varying degrees of information.
>
> I'd like one big map that shows markers for all places.  There should be
> one color for places I have been, one color for places I haven't.  You
> should be able to go from the marker to a page for that place.  That place
> specific page should show a close up map, all the pictures, and any other
> information I have.
>
> I would prefer for that page to be one node, though I have seen things done
> with views.  It would be great that if I created a new node of that type, a
> new marker showed up on the big map.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Anisa.
>
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