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Monday, February 16, 2009

Screencast: Umbraco map datatype preview

Filed under: Umbraco - by Darren Ferguson @ 6:50 PM

Preview of the Umbraco map datatype I've been working on. HINT: You can make the screencast full screen.

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  1. Niels Hartvig says:

    Niels HartvigThat is just incredibly HOT. I'm curious to see how you insert the maps into the template especially considering the different map rendering modes.

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@9:56 AM

  2. Richard Soeteman says:

    Richard SoetemanHi Darren,

    Very cool package. Also a great way to demonstrate the power of Umbraco datatypes. I will definitely use the datatype when it's available.

    Thanks for sharing,

    Richard

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@10:01 AM

  3. David Conlisk says:

    David ConliskDarren - excellent work mate! I'll definitely be using this one. Keep it up!

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@10:21 AM

  4. Soeren Sprogoe says:

    Soeren SprogoeOh gosh!

    Exactly what I need for a project I'm currently working on! Stop doing all these previews and release it already :-)

    Are there options for setting default long/lat/zoom, and wether you want to display the map as street map and/or satellite, when it is rendered in the backend?

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@11:04 AM

  5. Kenneth Solberg says:

    Kenneth SolbergGreat one Darren!

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@11:16 AM

  6. Darren Ferguson says:

    Darren Ferguson@soeren - I don't have those options as yet but they are simple to add, I'm hoping to make this available to everyone at the weekend. I should have time to add those options for you.

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@11:21 AM

  7. Greg Berlin says:

    Greg BerlinAwesome! I'm currently upgrading my blog and getting it all ready for my travel adventures (I'm exploring SE Asia for 3 months from March to June).... this would be absolutely perfect for showing my location in the world.

    I was going to do a Virtual Maps macro or data type, but have run out of time so glad u've beaten me to it. Thanks :)

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@2:08 PM

  8. Macke says:

    MackeLooks awesome!

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@2:18 PM

  9. Comicsken says:

    ComicskenNice one!

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@2:49 PM

  10. Tim Geyssens says:

    Tim GeyssensGreat stuff Darren !

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009@3:10 PM

  11. Warren Buckley says:

    Warren BuckleyHiya Darren,
    Some wicked work there!

    In the backend/canvas mode is it possible to configure the width and height of the map for the datatype ?

    Warren

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009@5:00 PM

  12. Darren Ferguson says:

    Darren Ferguson@Warren - yep, it is as simple as setting a CSS class.

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009@5:04 PM

  13. Peter Gregory says:

    Peter GregoryThis looks awesome... Did you manage to release it over the weekend? Would be perfect for the project that I have on the go right now.

    Sunday, February 22, 2009@8:53 PM

  14. Darren Ferguson says:

    Darren Ferguson@peter - I aim to get something out tonight.

    Tuesday, February 24, 2009@3:22 PM

  15. Mizan Syed says:

    Mizan SyedWe built something similar but not using datatype but Custom Control specifically tweaked for Umbraco. I might convert it to datatype when I have the time to learn more of datatype.

    http://www.hmg.gov.uk/newopportunities/comments/mappedcomments.aspx?t=yourstory

    Tuesday, March 03, 2009@3:12 AM

  16. Tom Maton says:

    Tom MatonHi Darren,

    Great work mate.

    Just a quick question though, is it possible to add multiple locations on one map using this datatype?

    Tom

    Monday, June 29, 2009@8:34 PM

  17. Darren Ferguson says:

    Darren FergusonHi Tom,

    I'd add multiple maps in different content nodes and use an XSLT Macro to render all of these locations to a single map on your front end website.

    If you start adding multiple locations to a single datatype you need somewhere to store a description of each location - opening hours if it is a store location etc - whereas ordinarily they can just be properties of the datatype.

    It all becomes very un-Umbraco like and messy. If you have any suggestions as to how this would work, I'd love to here them. The project has a suggestions forum on our.umbraco.org: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/google-maps-datatype

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009@9:03 AM

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