GMaps and CB Rough integration up online now

I started a thread about integrating CB support into GMaps 1.0, which is a great Google Mapping component. The author is interested, check his forum at firestorm-technologies.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,28/func,view/catid,2/id,424/#424

He says he'll bump this feature up in priority if other people are interested.

So go to the above link and absolutely rave about this must-have feature!! You don't have to register at the forum to post, so that makes it easy.

I'm trying to persuade him to build in the ability to use SQL queries as a parameter in this feature. That would make it easy to create maps that consist of only people that have posted on your forum, or only people with docman uploads, or only plumbers in chicago, etc. etc.

If enough people ask, this guy will provide the solution to our CB Google mapping woes.

Roger

Post edited by: Raj, at: 2007/03/25 21:04

Apparently the author of Gmaps is building CB integration into the next release, which is going to be really cool. I'm also trying to persuade him to write a plug in that will display the map in the users profile.

Raj

Sounds cool, am anxious to release

I joined there and gave some positive comments...

Hello, I am the developer of the GMaps component. Raj is correct, if enough people want the integration and I have time, I'll do it. Right now, as of today, I have successfully integrated with CB via an SQL adapter and have had no problems with rendering the map.

The SQL I used is:

[code:1]
$query = 'select user_id, u.name, '
. ' address, city, state, zipcode, country '
. ' from jos_comprofiler a, jos_users u '
. ' where a.user_id = u.id'
[/code:1]

My component will automatically compute the lat/long for the query above. You can also add lat/long fields to CB and query those as well. Either way it works just fine.

Also, if you are not familiar, my component does support images within the info window. My plan is to use that spot for the CB avatar.

I welcome any requests/feedback on what this community would like to see.

Hope to hear from more of you. I am also hoping to have a demo of the CB integration available this weekend -- time permitting.

Chris

Post edited by: cs1559, at: 2007/03/16 22:02

I can't wait! this will replace my GeoCoder plugin for calculating long/lat's ... Geocodes is slow as it checks EVERY user everytime one saves their profile