Where is my content?

Geo-referencing content types in Plone withcollective.geo Where is my content?

Who am I?Im senior developer and project manager with Abstract since 2011I have been working with Plone since 2007During the last years I have gained experience with various Python webdevelopment frameworks Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Web maps: when, why and how1. Complex and specialized GIS application2. Maps are the central part of the app Panoramio Foursquare Only-apartments3. Geo-referenced CMS Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

What is collective.geocollective.geo is a package that allows to geo-reference contents and todisplay them on a maphttp://plone.org/products/collective.geoIn 2008 I faced two problems learning Plone 3 and the Zope component architecture put a lot of contents on a map Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

What if c.geo was not therePlone products Cons Products.Maps 1. speciﬁc for Archetypes Products.ATGoogleMaps 2. can only georeference points redturtle.maps.core 3. can only use Google Maps raptus.article.map 4. developed for a speciﬁc project Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo manifesto modular and easily extendable up to date and taking advantage of ZCA not related to a speciﬁc map service Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Use cases

Use the location fieldENEAWe can use the location fieldof a content-type togeo-locate the offices of acompany Archetypes collective.geohttp://www.enea.it Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Dexterity content types TTWTropical Data HubWe can assign collective.geoMaps behaviour to aDexterity content-type inorder to make itgeo-referenceable Dexterity collective.geo.behaviourhttp://tropicaldatahub.org/ Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Not only pointsIW:LEARNc.geo allows to geo-referencecontent with different shapes Points Lines Polygonshttp://iwlearn.net/ Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

FlexitopicWe can aggregategeo-referenced contents witha Plone collection and, withflexitopic, we can show theresults on a table andpaginate them collective.flexitopic c.geo.flexitopic Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

More customizationsAORIFThe modular structure ofcollective.geo allows us tocustomize it in a simple wayOn saving a content we cangeolocate its address and showit on a map. The user doesntneed to know the coordinatesneither to use a complex UI. Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Backend/frontendWe can use a different javascriptmap services to display contents. Google maps Polymaps http://polymaps.org/ Leaﬂet http://leaﬂet.cloudmade.com Kartograph http://kartograph.orghttp://ferraraterraeacqua.it/ Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Plone.it - users mapWe can also view the portalusers in a speciﬁc mapWith a portlet we can include themap in a different context suchas a landing page. collective.geo.usersmaphttp://plone.it/partecipa Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Looking for my contentInside Plone when an object is geo-referenced an event is ﬁred by collective.geo.index collective.geo.geographerExternal catalogs <subscriber handler=".MySubscriber" SOLR for="IObjectGeoreferencedEvent" /> collective.solr PostGIS Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo under the hood

The core of collective.geoDependencies Installation Shapely [buildout] extends = http://dist.plone.org/release libgeos_c /4.2.1/versions.cfg geopy eggs = collective.geo.bundle BeautifulSoup BeautifulSoup ...Note: Shapely dependency will be removed in the next release Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo structure Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.openlayersIncludes the javascript library Openlayers in Plone and some otherjavascripts that are useful for managing maps in collective.geo layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google( Google maps, { sphericalMercator:true, numZoomLevels:20 } ) Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.geographer based on zgeo.geographer and >>> class Placemark(object): ... implements( zgeo.plone.geographer ... IGeoreferenceable, ... IAttributeAnnotatable provides the basic mechanism to ... ) enter geographic data into >>> placemark = Placemark() georeferenceable contents >>> geo = IGeoreferenced(placemark) >>> geo.setGeoInterface(Point,any object can be georeferenced ... (-105.08, 40.59)) Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.settingsstore default settings for collective.geo map center zoom level which layers have to be shown on the map which contents can be georeferenced default styles for all features Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.mapwidget manages the mechanism that handles Openlayers maps in Plone each map widget is a Zope component which contains a series of layers all the maps in collective.geo are composed by one or more map layers and each layer returns a javascript snippet by a page template which contains all information about the layer itself Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.mapwidget >>> from collective.geo.mapwidget import maplayer >>> class BingStretMapLayer(maplayer.MapLayer): ... name = u"bing_map" ... Title = _(uBing Streets) ... type = bing ... jsfactory = """ ... function() { ... return new OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth(%s, ... {type: VEMapStyle.Shaded, ... sphericalMercator: true}); ... }""" % Title <metal:layer use-macro="context/@@collectivegeo-macros/map-widget" />

collective.geo.contentlocationsuser interface for georeferencing Archetypes content types data can be inserted in WKT format geocoding with geopy it is possible to set customized styles Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.kmlregisters a kml view on the georeferenced objects and on folderishcontents such as Folders and Collections.the KML ﬁle can be used on external services like Google Earth/Maps Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Dexteritycollective.z3cform.mapwidget its a speciﬁc widget for z3c.form that allows to manage the geographic data in an easy waycollective.geo.behaviour its a Dexterity behaviour that allows to georeference contents and uses the annotations mechanism of collective.geo.geographer for registering data Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

More extensions

collective.geo.mapcontent Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

collective.geo.fileit provides a view for KML, KMZ (Keyhole Markup Language) and GPX(GPS eXchange Format) files.The view renders the file in a openlayers Map using the collective.geolibrary. Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Conclusion 7 packages on the core (two more for Dexterity soon) 9 addons packages translated in 9 languages Coactivate http://www.coactivate.org/projects/collectivegeo Readthedocs http://collectivegeo.readthedocs.org Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

Contributors Sean Gillies Christian Ledermann - nan Silvio Tomatis - silviot David Beitey - davidjb Gerhard Weis - gweis Maurizio Delmonte - miziodel David Breitkreutz - rockdj Alice Narduzzo Makina corpus Enrico Barra Abstract Where is my content? — Giorgio Borelli

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