Geolocation plugin

The Contribution plugin provides a way to add geolocation data to individual items, and browse through geocoded items through a Google Map.

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Installing the Geolocation plugin

  1. Upload and activate the Geolocation plugin (see Installing_a_Plugin).

Configuring the Geolocation plugin

After activating the plugin, click the "Configure" link. Once in the configuration panel, enter values for default latitude, longitude, zoom level for the map (scale 1-10), and your Google Maps API Key. To get a key, visit the Google Maps API.

Using the Geolocation plugin

Map Browse page

The plugin automatically create a map/browse page at http://example.com/map/browse, where example.com is the path to your Omeka installation. You can make a link to this page using the uri(); function, like so:

Map on Item Show page

You can put a map anywhere on the item/show page by using the following code: 

<?php echo map_for_item($item); ?>
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