[Plugin: GeoPress] Integration with NextGen Gallery

  • On one side, NextGen gallery is the leading gallery plugin.
    On the other side, your plugin is the best plugin I could find for geo-localization of posts.

    However, NextGen is lacking support for adding geo information to the pictures/albums.

    It would be lovely to get a NextGen Gallery plugin that allows to add location to a picture and as well that would use your plugin to show the pictures on a map.

    What would be required on NextGen gallery side:
    – ability to attach meta information to images (similar to the meta information in WordPress posts i.e. a separate table).

    – the required interface to add metadata fields (similar to the one found in the post edition page, including a filter to allow plugins to insert their own metadata insertion interface)

    – Output a KML file for an album, a gallery or all the pictures.

    And on GeoPress side:
    – Ability to show a blank map on which we load an external KML file (As a template tag and/or as a shortcode of type [geopress-kml]https://www.domain.com/my-file.kml[/geopress-kml]) which would by the way open so many other possibilities to GeoPress.

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  • that’s a nice idea!
    we only need someone to build it ??

    I can add any filter/hook to the plugin to support this idea… If some would like to progra<m it , conact me I’m glad to help in this integration…

    GeoPress uses Mapstraction, which has built-in support for adding KML and GeoRSS files. So the mapstraction.js library is already being loaded.

    So this would be easy in straight javascript. See the demo here:
    https://mapstraction.com/demo-georss.php

    As for in GeoPress as template tags, what do you think about the following:

    adding to the geopress_map and geopress_post_map functions an optional parameter that is “url” for the overlay. So to get the “blank map” with overlay:
    <?php echo geopress_map(400, 200, 0 true, false, -1, “https://mapufacture.com/maps/1924.kml&#8221;) ?>

    By changing the third parameter (number of locations) from 0 to -1 you can even overlay your blog’s posts in the map.

    I can also modify the INSERT_MAP template function to include a URL along with the post location (if there is one)

    INSERT_MAP(200,200,”https://mapufacture.com/maps/1924.kml&#8221;)

    Sound ok?

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