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17 comments for “Screencast: Umbraco map datatype preview”

1. Niels Hartvig says:

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

   17 February 2009 at 09:56:33

2. Richard Soeteman says:

   Hi 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

   17 February 2009 at 10:01:52

3. David Conlisk says:

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

   17 February 2009 at 10:21:08

4. Soeren Sprogoe says:

   Oh 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?

   17 February 2009 at 11:04:09

5. Kenneth Solberg says:

   Great one Darren!

   17 February 2009 at 11:16:25

6. Darren Ferguson says:

   @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.

   17 February 2009 at 11:21:41

7. Greg Berlin says:

   Awesome! 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 :)

   17 February 2009 at 14:08:17

8. Macke says:

   Looks awesome!

   17 February 2009 at 14:18:17

9. Comicsken says:

   Nice one!

   17 February 2009 at 14:49:51

10. Tim Geyssens says:

    Great stuff Darren !

    17 February 2009 at 15:10:36

11. Warren Buckley says:

    Hiya 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

    18 February 2009 at 17:00:39

12. Darren Ferguson says:

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

    18 February 2009 at 17:04:09

13. Peter Gregory says:

    This 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.

    22 February 2009 at 20:53:07

14. Darren Ferguson says:

    @peter - I aim to get something out tonight.

    24 February 2009 at 15:22:05

15. Mizan Syed says:

    We 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.
    
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    03 March 2009 at 03:12:16

16. Tom Maton says:

    Hi Darren,
    
    Great work mate.
    
    Just a quick question though, is it possible to add multiple locations on one map using this datatype?
    
    Tom

    29 June 2009 at 20:34:26

17. Darren Ferguson says:

    Hi 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
    

    30 June 2009 at 09:03:55