Topic: BuddyPress Maps · BuddyPress.org

BuddyPress Maps

grosbouff
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@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

Hi, I’m currently developping a plugin to display and save maps (google maps) in BuddyPress.

The core component allows to save,edit and display markers on a map; and you can use it for your own plugins.

For example, I made a plugin to “attach” a map to a user’s profile,

and i’m working on another one to display a map with all the locations of the users of a group.

demo : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/wordpress-mu/members/admin/profile/public/

You can try to register on this demo site and edit your profile to see how it works.

There are many options to customize the maps; one of them is the “dynamic” parameter (both/static/dynamic).

Both (default) means that the map is displayed as a picture. If you click it, it loads a real map wherin you can move. This should avoid loading to much javacript.

You can also choose the number of markers a map can include,

If titles and descriptions are available for this marker, etc.

I’m also working on the privacy (not yet fully working) : for each marker, the user can choose who (visitor,member or friend) :

-can/can’t see the marker

-if he can see the marker, you can also choose to not display the exact location (it will be a random location at +-150m of the original location). Eg. for a profile location : you can choose that visitors (non registered users) will not be able to see your marker; that a regular member will be able to see it but not the exact location; and that your friends will be able to see the exact point.

In the future, i’ll try to use this to filter query results for geo-location.

Well; I guess there is lot of potential for this one !!!

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grosbouff
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@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

“Map for groups” feature added…

http://dev.benoitgreant.be/wordpress-mu/groups/buddypress-map-for-groups-test/map/

finni3
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@finni3

14 years, 9 months ago

wow, looks really nice! Great work.

designodyssey
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@designodyssey

14 years, 9 months ago

Very nice. How is the marker in the map determined? Do you have registration items for address and then geocode on the backend?

Good work

grosbouff
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@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

@designodyssey :

yes. there is a core component (buddypress maps) that is used to save/load markers on a map; and then the BuddyPress Maps profile plugin;

which loads the map/edit map where it does and prefills the marker information with the profile fields. But you still have to save the marker.

Try to register and edit the Location group on my demo website, you’ll see !

grosbouff
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@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

0.1-alpha version (for tests only !)

http://dev.benoitgreant.be/2010/02/13/buddypress-maps/

grosbouff
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@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

Updated +

Quick guide to use it with your plugin : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/blog/2010/02/buddypress-maps-how-to-use-it-with-your-plugin/

@mercime
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@mercime

14 years, 9 months ago

Grosbouff, looking great. Will be testing it tonight. Cheers.

peterverkooijen
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@peterverkooijen

14 years, 9 months ago

Grosbouff, are you aware of the Geo Mashup plugin. Couldn’t you leverage that?

I installed and activated Geo Mashup site-wide, but then it asks all the member blogs for their own Google API code in the wp-admin, which is annoying and will confuse many users.

Haven’t had time to test your plugin yet, but if it does the same as Geo Mashup, I’d rather have a cleaned up BP-ready version of Geo Mashup.

grosbouff
Participant

@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

@Peter : mine does not require an API key and is BP-ready But there is less features.

It’s up to you to choose which one is the best for you.

Karin Johansson
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@fristil

14 years, 9 months ago

@grosbouff â€“Â Thank you!

IÂ´m using BP Maps and BP Maps Profile and it works like a charm.

Will you put it up for localization, at least for user side? I will be happy to contribute with a Swedish translation.

tolitoli
Member

@tolitoli

14 years, 9 months ago

Version 0.1.5-alpha

at Backend – Options – Maps Sizes, I get the following Warning:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in â€¦/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-maps/bp-maps-admin.php on line 278

and the Drop-Down is emty

grosbouff
Participant

@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

@tolitoli>strange,

I don’t have this even when I reset the options…

Could you try to reset options and tell me if it happens again ?

tolitoli
Member

@tolitoli

14 years, 9 months ago

@Grosbouff

reset does not change, the first appearance after a reset

schwooba
Participant

@schwooba

14 years, 9 months ago

On the backend, whenever I go to “edit profile” to set a marker and I click search, it sends me to the top of the page and does nothing. Any ideas for me? I’m running WPMU 2.9.1 and BP 1.2.1.

grosbouff
Participant

@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

Updated to 0.1.6.

Added localization and ability to set default map (when no markers yet) to user’s city, based on its IP.

@schwooba : try to update to 0.1.6.

If it still does it;

have your firebug enabled ?

Could you try with firebug opened ?

Please reply on the support forum : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/bbpress/forum/buddypress-maps

schwooba
Participant

@schwooba

14 years, 9 months ago

The upgrade worked for me…Thanks! I’ll post further questions/issues on your site.

gregfielding
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@gregfielding

14 years, 9 months ago

I’m getting an error message when I try to upgrade:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/housings/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:18) in /home/housings/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

landshark
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@landshark

14 years, 9 months ago

Grosbouff,

This is a shot in the dark and I don’t know how difficult this would be, but what I am looking to do is to have individual groups have locations and have the locations of all groups show up on a map, lets say on the front page.

This is to allow people to find groups near them by looking at a map.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

paulhastings0
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@paulhastings0

14 years, 9 months ago

Looks like an excellent plugin in the works. I’m looking forward to it.

grosbouff
Participant

@grosbouff

14 years, 9 months ago

@Landshark : should not be very difficult to do :

The BuddyPress Maps plugin has been made to be flexible…

You have to extend the buddyPress groups plugin, allow the admin to add a map and then display it.

I can give you some infos if it’s difficult for you, but i don’t have the time to code it myself.

By the way, check this post too : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/?p=162

schwooba
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@schwooba

14 years, 9 months ago

I like @Lansharks idea too. I could definitely use that feature.

@Grosbouff : If you could give us an idea on how to do that, I would try to learn and implement it.

Thanks for the plug-in and the hard work.

landshark
Participant

@landshark

14 years, 9 months ago

Well I’m not a coder. But if this is an easy enough project to begin learning on it might be worth a shot. Any tips on where to begin?

Anton
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@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 9 months ago

I’ve activated the plugins and the profile maps but I can edit my location, but it doesn’t display the map when you view my profile. Only when you edit your location.

i also get this error when I try to save a marker

Error occured while trying to save marker information

schwooba
Participant

@schwooba

14 years, 9 months ago

What error do you get?

Anton
Participant

@antonrsaopencirclecoza

14 years, 8 months ago

this is the error: Error occured while trying to save marker information

That’s the error I get when I try to update the location of a profile.