[drupal-devel] question re maps in drupal (fwd)

[K B]

Looks very promising.

I had a few issues though:

1. When link gave a 500 internal server error.

2. The other worked for a few clicks, but when I tried to do recenter,
it caused FireFox to eat up CPU time, and the only way I could recover
is to kill it.

On 6/17/05, Anselm Hook <anselm at hook.org> wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:57:41 -0700 (MST)
> From: Anselm Hook <anselm at hook.org>
> To: civicspace-dev at civicspacelabs.org
> Subject: question re maps in drupal
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> I have some questions about approach...
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> Here is some work we are doing on supporting maps in drupal / civicspace:
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>   http://ghost.thingster.org/cs//?q=node/24
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> It is based on this piece of work that we published a couple of days ago:
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>   http://maps.civicactions.net
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> The approach I am taking is to minimize the weight of the mapping layer
> inside of drupal itself and to rely entirely on a rich client-side engine
> written in javascript.  The engine talks to any conventional WMS server
> and is optimized for tile based access for performance.
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> This relies heavily on the idea of drupal publishing RSS feeds where nodes
> are decorated with location information in the form of geo:long and
> geo:lat.  The location module is also something I am relying on to do
> this.
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> Not everything in drupal is published as XML however.  You could not right
> now easily build a Javascript version of a drupal site for example ( I
> think ).
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> Is there an AJAX plan in the works and any time frame for that?  In
> particular I'd like to build a small 'filter users by location' XML
> exporter - but there are other things beyond that one example.
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> Should I hack this myself, wait, do something comprehensive etc?
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> Basically there is a tipping point between 'do this one little hack' and
> 'build out an AJAX API'...  I'm not on top of what the drupal / civicspace
> plan is however and any input is welcome.
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>  - a
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