Transition Technology: Ticket #615: Move to GMap 6.x-2.x-dev as and get clusterer to work

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jim — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:14:51 GMT

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jim — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:19:42 GMT

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I've also done some checks on stg2 site -- see http://stg2.transitionnetwork.org/projects/pedal-wind-powered-shipping-container-cinema-offgrid-caravanserai-east-london

The mapping and markers works well except for the following:

The cluster does not work, so all markers have to be shown alone on the 'big maps' lest there be none showing. To do with https://drupal.org/node/1459606 and https://drupal.org/node/1573062 and will need some patches applying.
The module is complaining that the TN-specific markers for the mulling/official items on the big ini map are non-existent. They are on this version of GMap, so we need to make a patche that will allow Drush to put them into the right folder when the module is added to a platform.

Will investigate the above further this week, add the patches and get ready to do this in PROD too.

Adding time for reading, R&D and work in STG mucking about with settings.

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jim — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:52:33 GMT

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Since the old API shuts down tomorrow, I've gone ahead and replaced the 1.x custom version of the GMap we were using with the 2.x DEV branch. The caveats above apply, except I've manually copied the markers from our old gmap module.

To do on this ticket:

Make a patch and add to our makefile so our custom markers appear ok.
Get the clusterer to work per the comments/issues above.

Note that this new API will be faster to render lots of markers than before, so the lack clusterer issue will only be a problem on a couple of big maps on old/mobile hardware.

Downgrading from Critical for these reasons. This effectively fixes #622 and #616 too.

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jim — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:41:27 GMT

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jim — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:37:24 GMT

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Per a chat with Ed, we're not going to be doing anything with this on D6... Clusterer support will be reinstated in D7 if necessary.

Note that hardware, Google js libraries and browsers have got a lot better since we needed to add the clusterer exactly 2 years ago.

Closing.

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jim — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:37:31 GMT

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jim — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:47:27 GMT

Note the patch for our custom GMap markers is now included in the makefile.

So this is double-closed!