Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of qPloneGoogleMaps

Timestamp:

Jul 11, 2006 8:59:00 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

olena

Comment:

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qPloneGoogleMaps

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  Due to '''qPloneGoogleMaps''' you can set up the latitude and longitude of your site objects and have their maps exhibited on your site.
+http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/school-portlet-map.png
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+http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/school-portlet-map-large-screen.png
+
+== Use Case 1 ==
+
+ * Suppose you have a folder "School".
+ * Create two pages for this folder ("School1", "School2")
 
 Choose the object you need and click on the tab '''"geolocation"''', which appeared after the installation of the Plone product with the same name. You will see a page with latitude and longitude fields and an empty Google map. Fill in the fields with the latitude and longitude  values, click the "Save" button and you will see the changes on the map below. 
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 In case you want to change the location of your object, you don't need to know the exact latitude and longitude values: just click on the map region you need, and the marker of the object will move in a way you like.
-Note that you can switch between three modes of the map by clicking on the corresponding buttons on the right top of the Google map: Map, Satellite and Hybrid (two first modes combined).
 
 
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 == Use Case 2 ==
 
+Due to qPloneGoogleMaps the folders on your site can have an additional content type '''"Map"'''. 
 
-
-If you go to the "map" folder, you will notice that it has an additional content type "overlay":
+ * Suppose, you have a folder "Nigeria".
+ * Go to this folder and add '''"map"''' item from the "add item" drop-down menu.
+ * If you go to the '''"map"''' you've created, you will notice that it can have an additional content type '''"overlay"''':
 
 http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/overlay.png
 
-It is necessary to create overlays if you want to have a full map with all of the objects having latitude-longitude parameters.
-
 You can create an overlay in the following way: 
- * 
+ * Add an overlay to the map
+ * Enter its Short Name and title
 
 http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/editoverlay.png
 
-Now choose the object for the marker and click "insert":
+ * now choose the object with the latitude-longitude parameters you want your marker to be tied to and click "insert":
 
 http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/markers.png
  
 
-After browsing the object for the marker select the marker's color which will be shown on the map and click the "save" button.
+ * After browsing the object for the marker select the marker's color which will be shown on the map 
+ * Click the '''"Save"''' button.
 
-Suppose you have a folder containing other folders with overlays. You can view the map with all of these overlays on it. Go to this folder and choose the maps view. Your map will look like this:
+You can create overlays for all the pages in the folder if you want all of them to be shown on one map.
+Go to this folder and choose the maps view. Your map will look like this:
 
 http://quintagroup.com/services/plone-development/products/google-maps/wholemap.png