Location

Introduction

Location is a plugin that will allow you to create relatively robust list of locations (stores, churches, etc.). This uses the Directory extension by Loren Johnson as a starting point but makes a number of different decisions. First it uses Geokit (geokit.rubyforge.org) to handle the heavy lifting. Second, the JavaScript is completely rewritten to use version 2 of the Google Maps API and to make some additional API changes (this is still TODO)

Settings

You may enable or disable visible features for editing locations by setting these options in your environment using Radiant::Config or using the Settings extension:

Key Default Value Possible Values

locations.use_groups? false true/false locations.use_website_urls? false true/false locations.use_page_paths? false true/false locations.allow_manual_geocoding? false true/false

geokit.default_formula sphere sphere/flat geokit.default_units miles miles/kms

geokit.geocoders.proxy_addr nil [IP Address or hostname of Proxy Server] geokit.geocoders.proxy_port nil [Port of Proxy server] geokit.geocoders.proxy_user nil [username for Proxy] geokit.geocoders.proxy_pass nil [password for Proxy] geokit.geocoders.timeout nil [number in seconds] geokit.geocoders.yahoo nil [Yahoo Geocoder API Key] geokit.geocoders.google [api code] [Google Maps API Key] geokit.geocoders.geocoder_us false [Geocoder.us API Key] geokit.geocoders.geocoder_ca false [Geocoder.ca API Key] geokit.geocoders.provider_order ‘google us’ [space-separated list of geocoding services: google yahoo us ca ip]

Geokit Modifications

I’ve made a few modifications to GeoKit to get it to work inside the extension and to maintain certain Radiant paradigms.

• Geokit is included as a library to the extension rather than as a plugin

• All references to the configuration values have been changed to use Radiant::Config

Finding Results in space

To process search requests for locations you must create a Location Page. use <r:location> to find and return locations.

The parameters you can use to “find” locations are:

start point

The start point is some point in space relative to which we will find locations. This allows a user to say “Find location near Main Street and First Street, My Town, BC, Canada”.

When a start value is specified (using either address or lat&lng), then it will be always be used to calculate a distance to each returned location. If a distance is requested, we will return all the locations with that distance of the start point.

address

If supplied, this will be an address that will be geocoded using the configured geocode providers. Once a latitude & longitude are calculated, they form the start point for the request.

lat & lng

If both parameters are supplied, they are used as the start point. They always take precedence over address.

distance

When specified, all the locations within this distance of the start point are returned. If no distance is specified, all locations are returned

units

The units are used for calculating distance from a location to the start point. The default value is “km”

count

The number of results to return. Defaults to returning ALL results

offset

The number of the first result to return. This allows you to build pagination into your code