Mapping with Drupal: Navigating Complexities to Create Beautiful and Engaging Maps (OREILLY AND ASSOCIATE) - Softcover

Palazzolo, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449308945 ISBN 13: 9781449308940

Verlag: O'Reilly and Associates, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data.

Although building maps with Drupal can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system’s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with Drupal today.

Get up to speed on map projections, the ethics of making maps, and the challenges of building them online Learn how spatial data is stored, input by users, manipulated, and queried Use the OpenLayers or GMap modules to display maps with lists, tables, and data feeds Create rich, custom interactions by applying geolocation Customize your map’s look and feel with personalized markers, map tiles, and map popups Build modules that add imaginative and engaging interactions

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alan Palazzolo is a Code for America fellow, and has been a big contributor to mapping modules, most notably OpenLayers. He maintains several Drupal modules and has been a featured speaker at Drupal events around the world. Alan led the first ever Code Review Sprint to review project applications at DrupalCon Chicago 2011.

Thomas Turnbull has been building websites in PHP since 2002, and working with Drupal since 2006. He has been an organizer for Drupal Camp New York, and has been contributor and maintainer for several Drupal modules. He has done Drupal development for Sony Music in New York, where he built sites for artists on their record labels using Drupal, and is currently working for Zagat, helping to migrate their website over to Drupal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: O'Reilly and Associates
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1449308945
• ISBN 13: 9781449308940
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
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