Checking in with Mapping in Drupal 7

Online Edition

Meet John Snow and Henry Whitehead

- John Snow and Henry Whitehead

- London, 1854. 1st city with 1 million people

- Poor infrastructure, hygine poor. Let to cholera outbreaks

- Snow/Whitehead went door to door, led to...

More information... The Ghost Map

- Cholera map 1854, important artifact in medical investigation & data visualization

- Building next to the pump, monestary brews own beer

- This map is part of our legacy as story tellers and information sharers

Problem: I need to store location/mapping information.

Geofield

Geospatial storage

Stores points, lines, polygons

Geofield

Input Formats

Input Widgets

Geofield

Text Formatters

Text Formatters

GPX - XML schema for gps devices

Geohash - String format useful for high performance proximity searching

Problem: I need to convert my real-world data into something a computer can understand.

Geocoder

Geocoder

Providers

Geocoder providers

Two types of providers, external service and files

Yandex - Russian counterpart to Google

Problem: I need to get my data out of Drupal into another system, pronto.

Views GeoJSON

Problem: I need to put my data on a map.

Openlayers

Problem: I need to put my data on a map, like a boss.

Leaflet

Problem: I need to display static or near-static information on a map.

Mapbox

Mapbox

Problem: I need to be able to filter/analyze/interact with my geospatial data online.

CartoDB

CartoDB

How Can I Help?

- Catch up with the wider ecosystem (support for outside standards, better usage of API's)

- Better UX (think iD for Open Street Map)

- Better config management (MapJSON)

Questions?

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Slides: http://tiny.cc/geospatial-drupal

: Brandon Morrison

: bmorrison@phase2technology.com

: @fillerwriter

D.O: Brandonian