About

easyMap for Pixelpost reads the EXIF of your photos, searches for geodata (longitude/latitude) and allows you to add a link, showing where the image was taken on a (google) map.

easyMap uses lytebox (http://www.dolem.com/lytebox/) to show the map with a "lightbox"-overlay. If a browser without JavaScript is used, a static image to the google map page with the photo's coordinates is used.

All you need is PHP 4.2.0 (or above) with the '--enable-exif' option active to read the exif data and images with geodata inside their EXIF, of course! If you want to use the <EASY_MAP_LOCATION>tag your IPTC-data needs to be tagged accordingly.

easyMap for Pixelpost provides two Template-Tags:

• <EASY_MAP_LINK>: displays a link opening a google-maps overlay, or, if no geodata was found, a text message.
• <EASY_MAP_LOCATION>: displays a link with the format: city/state/country opening a google-maps overlay, or, if no geodata was found, a text message.

You can see the plugin at work on my photoblog: http://makrograf.com/index.php?showimage=30

Click on Comments&Details to see the link.

Read the included readme.txt or this page ;)

Installation

• Download the addon
• Extract the easyMap.zip and open the easyMap.php!
  • Edit both the width/height of the map-overlay ($map_width $map_height) if you want to
  • Add your Goolge Maps API key ($apiKey), you'll get one here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
• Save the easyMap.php and upload the whole _easyMap-folder to your addons-folder of the pixelpost installation
• Activate the Addon in the Admin-panel. A map appears if you did it right!

Languages

There is a language-folder inside (_easyMap/lang), containing two files for English and German. Only three variables are used right now, add additional language files (standard pixelpost language abbreviations as filename used, de.php/en.php/fr.php...) if your blog needs them.

Feel free to contact me then, I will be happy to include these files in upcoming releases.

version history

0.31

• Added analysis of Longitude/Latitude reference for correct location handling

0.3

• Changed the way EXIF data is read. Exifer (comes with Pixelpost) used for compatibility issues
• Supressed wrong API key Alert box
• Runs without Javascript (static google maps Image displayed instead)
• Improved handling of wrong API keys (no front page popup errors anymore) and alternate link pointing to google maps with the photos coordinates displayed instead
• added tiny debugging-part in admin panel

0.2

• Added second Tag:
• Added API-key Checker inside the Admin panel
• changed the way images are analyzed, to prevent errors inside Admin panel (executed now only in /index.php)
• fixed the thumbnail-url passed to the map.php
• one language-variable added in language files ($easyMap_no_location)
• some minor changes

0.1

• initial release of easyMap for pixelpost