Microsoft Sharepoint Web Parts

Google Geo Mapper Sharepoint Web Part

Google Geo Mapper Web Part

The Google Geo Mapper Web Part allows to display the geographical locations taken from a Sharepoint List or a Sharepoint Document Library. The map is created using Google's public Map API. Detailed information about each location is shown in the info bubble and in an optional info window below the map. List attachments and Document library files can be opened from the info window. The Web Part can be connected to a Sharepoint List to get the Latitude/Longitude information from a Sharepoint List. The Web Part can be used with Windows Sharepoint Services V3, MOSS 2007 and Sharepoint 2010.  The following parameters can be configured: Sharepoint List or Document Library containing the longitude/latitude coordinates supports List Views for filtering Map width, height and initial Map Zoom level Default Map Pin Icon optional List column name containing the Pin Icon name. Allows to assign different pins to each location Info Bubble Text Template Info Box List Column to display additional information and file attachments below the map for each selected location

Product	Price
Geo Mapper Web Part 30 day Evaluation Version	Free
Geo Mapper Web Part License Key	USD 200.00
Geo Mapper Web Part Installation Instructions
Deployment Instructions for SP 2010
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Installation Instructions:

1. download the Geo Mapper Web Part Installation Instructions (PDF file, see above) 
   
2. either install the web part manually or deploy the feature to your server/farm as described in the instructions.
   


3. Configure the following Web Part properties in the Web Part Editor "Miscellaneous" pane section as needed:
   
   

   Site Name: Enter the name of the site that contains the Sharepoint List or Document Library containing the data to be mapped. leave this field empty if the List in in the current site (eg. the Web Part is placed in the same site) Enter a "/" character if the List contained in the top site Enter a path if the List in in a subsite of the current site (eg. in the form of "current site/subsite") List Name: Enter the name of the desired Sharepoint List or Sharepoint Document Library containing the data to be mapped. Please note that the List must contain two columns named Latitude and Longitude containing the Latitude and Logitude values: You can interactively look up Latitude/Longitude vales on the  Google Maps Lat/Lon Lookup page. View Name: Optionally enter the desired List View of the list specified above. A List View allows you to apply specific data filtering and sorting. Leave this field empty if you want to use the List default view. Web Part Connection: you can alternatively connect the Geo Mapper Web Part to a Sharepoint List to interactively get the Latitude/Longitude information from the selected List item: Create a Web Part Connection between the Sharepoint List and the Geo Mapper web part as follows: switch the page to "Edit" mode Choose "Connections" from the List Web Part "edit" menu Choose "Provide Row To" Select the Geo Mapper Web Part in the menu Map width/Map height: Enter the desired map dimensions in pixels. Initial Zoom Level:  enter the desired Zoom Level as follows:   enter a value between 0 (min zoom) and  19 (max zoom) Map Icon: enter the name (without the trailing .png file extension) of the default map pin icon to be used. For a list of available icons see below. Please note that the free version always displays the red default pin icon. Map Icon Directory: enter the URL of the location of the map icon images. You can either create your own icon collection on your web server or use one of the existing icon collections: http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons (see Preview) http://www.amrein.com/Pins  (see Preview) You can also download the Pins.zip file and extract the icons into a suitable local folder on your web server Icon Column Name: use this option if you want to assign individual icons to each List entry (leave field empty otherwise to default to the icon set in the "Map Icon" option above) by placing the name of the List column containing the icon name to be used for that list entry Info Bubble Template: Enter each List column that you want to display in the info bubble. Separate the values by commas. If you want to add a prefix and/or a postfix to a column, you need to surround the List column name by curly braces.  Examples: Title,Address,City {Title},<br>{Address},<br><font color=green>{City}</font> Info Bubble Height: Enter the height (in pixels) of the info bubble. Enter "0" if you want the bubble height to be calculated automatically. Please note that you can override the default Info Bubble Width of 225 pixels by adding the following line to your web.config (typically found at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\virtualdirectories\80) section as follows: <appSettings>   .   .   <add key="AEGM_BubbleWidth" value="500" /> </appSettings> The above example sets the bubble width to 500 pixels. Tooltip Template: Enter each List column that you want to display in the pin tooltip. Separate the values by colons. If you want to add a prefix and/or a postfix to a column, you need to surround the List column name by curly braces. Use \n as a line separator. The information is displayed as a tooltip when hovering over the map icon: Info Box Column Name: (optional) Enter the List column that you want to display in the info box below the map. List File attachments and Document Library files will be automatically listed at the bottom of the info box. Info Box Window Height: Enter the height (in pixels) of the info box window below the map. Enter "0" if you don't want to display the info box. Google API Key: Enter your valid Google API key which can be generated by visiting http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/maps/signup.html License Key: enter your Product License Key (as supplied after purchase of the Geo Mapper license key). Leave this field empty if you are using the free evaluation version. You can check the evaluation period via the web part configuration pane:

   
   

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Octopus   9/22/2009 20:43  Hello guys, this webpart is awesome! However, I'm having the following problem: when I click the pin icons on the map, the Info Buble shows information of other row of the list, not the one it relates to. Any clue? Octopus   9/22/2009 20:53  Hello again, The webpart seems to check the existence of the view (it does not let you insert a view name that does not exist), but it always takes the default view (All Items) for the map. Am I doing something wrong? Juerg   9/24/2009 11:41  Octopus, we have now fixed a problem which caused all the bubble infos to be offset by one entry. Please re-download the ZIP file, extract and replace the DLL. Please also do an IISRESET if you deployed to the GAC. Joshua   10/2/2009 01:44  Hi - I've just tried installing this web part but after adding it to a page I get the following error. The "AEGeoMapper" Web Part appears to be causing a problem. Request for the permission of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' failed. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Juerg   10/2/2009 10:07  Joshua, can you check if the trust level in your web.config file is set to “WSS_Minimal” ? If so, please set it to “medium” as follows: <trust level="WSS_Medium" originUrl="" /> Aby   10/22/2009 18:27  Do we have to click the icon for the details. Can't the mouse over shows the details ? Juerg   10/23/2009 15:01  Aby, we have now added the Tooltip feature. Please re-download the Zip file, extract and replace the DLL. aby   11/9/2009 14:50  Thanks Juerg, Another question : Why the links won't work from the Info Bubble.? I mean, from the bubble info, I have to open a website. It shows errors. ( here info Box name is empty) But if I give the Info Box and click the same link there it works... Juerg   11/11/2009 16:39  aby, can you send us the HTML source for that page to support@amrein.com for analysis ? OPCadmin   12/15/2009 00:39  Great webpart! I am having a problem with the Info Box. It doesn't show anything. I can display the same info (column) in a tool tip but nothing shows up when I use it in the info box. Second issue: any chance to have a connection between the source list and the map webpart like you have in a google map webpart? For example when I select a row a bubble will appear on the map? Thanks! Myles Milner   2/18/2010 20:34  Installed the web part according to the directs but I never get a map to show. What am I missing? Juerg   2/19/2010 11:09  Myles, Do you get an error message (eg. were you able to successfully install the web part) ? Can you give the details of the web part configuration settings ? Chris   3/9/2010 20:44  Is it possible to use this Webpart on sites with https:// (SSL) ? I saw that the other google-webpart already has this option... Juerg   3/10/2010 13:55  Chris, the Google Map API currently does not support access via https. Thus your users will get the “unsafe” message from their browser unless they add the URL to their “safe” setting. Leonard   3/11/2010 13:39  I incurred the same problem as Octopus, but got it working after referring to a different support blog. Don't know why this is a little difficult to get off ground, but I am only a weekend "web guy" for my company anyhow. However, I was wondering if there is a way to have multiple site highlighted at once and when you print the page, keep them visible so that they will print. Even when I highlight one location and try to print it, the pop-up does not show up. Good solution for us though, if we could get this to work becasue we have several dozen job sites going at once and we have single staff member plot these in a map program on their computer. Of course they are the only one that can view it so they print it out for the job folder. Very outdated process. Juerg   3/11/2010 18:52  Leonard, the Google Maps info bubble pop-up is indeed missing in the print-out. It is also not possible to have more than one open pop-up on the map. This is caused by the way the Google Maps API is designed, so we are not able to correct this.  Is anyone aware of a possible workaround ? John   3/22/2010 19:26  Is there a way to adjust the size of the yellow box below a map ithouth adjusting the size of your Popup bubble? I need to a bigger Popup bubble but prefer to have no yellow box below the map at all. Juerg   3/23/2010 15:55  John, you can turn off the yellow info box by setting the "Info Box Window Height" to zero. You then can include the "Description" column (or any other columns) in your "Info Bubble Template" setting. John   3/24/2010 19:23  Unfortunately, if I do that then the Popup bubble is too small to fit all of the info in it without adding a scroll bar. I want a big enough bubble (the data I have shown is formatted and needs to be large for my use) to show all of the data at one time, but have no need for the yellow box at the bottom at all. Is there no way to solve this issue? John Juerg   3/25/2010 11:55  John, we've now added the new "Info Bubble Height" web part setting which allows you to set the desired height of the info bubble (set it to "0" if you want to set it automatically). If you also want to override the default 225 pixel info bubble maximum width, please add the AEGM_BubbleWidth setting to your web.config's appSettings sections as described in the "Installation Instructions" above. Please re-download the updated Zip file, extract and replace the DLL (followed by an "iisreset" command if the DLL is placed in c:\windows\assembly) Gunther   4/21/2010 15:56  Juerg, So when do you plan on adding web a part connection feature to this web part? I am excited to use this feature. Juerg   4/21/2010 16:46  Gunther, we've added the web part connection feature on February 8 (see description of feature above). Gunther   4/21/2010 19:08  Sorry, I was being kind of vague. I was referencing the features from this post that I had in the "Google Map Webpart" page. - "Gunther 4/16/2010 05:43 It would be great to connect the map web part to another web part on a page, and have the map web part display each list item in the connected web part as the pin. In addition when you select a item in the list of the connected web part then have the corresponding map pin show the bubble information. It would be nice to be able to hover over the pins and have the bubble pop-up as well. Here is an example of what I am wanting to do- I have a web part page that displays the basic company information. It has a webpart displaying a filtered list from a "company sites" list that shows the sites for the company. I want to show these sites on the map, and have the behaviour described above. " Juerg   4/22/2010 14:22  Gunther, we 've now added this feature to the GeoMapper web part as follows: if the web part both is  connected to a Sharepoint List and also references the List via its "List Name" parameter, all the locations contained in the List will be shown on the map. If the user selects a List entry, the map will show the selected location centered with the info bubble opened. Please re-download the uploaded Zip file and replace the DLL. Jürg   4/25/2010 00:24  How do I connect it to another webpart that is displaying a filtered list? Juerg   4/27/2010 12:15  Jürg, create a Web Part Connection between the Sharepoint List and the Google Map web part as follows: switch the page to "Edit" mode Choose "Connections" from the List Web Part "edit" menu Choose "Provide Row To" Select the Google Map Web Part in the menu Radhika   8/7/2010 12:58  It does not have address and city column lookup like the Google map web part? So, if my list is dynamic, I have to use geocoder api to get the lat and log right? Juerg   8/9/2010 10:52  Radhika, we did not inlude this feature since Google imposes some limits for excessive Geocoder queries within a short time frame (which be be the case if you have a huge List containing many items). Ameha   9/2/2010 17:45  I am using Geo Mapper web part, on the bubble window I want to display a link that points to a document in my document library. The link opens documents when I click it on the list, but it does not work on the bubble window. Any help is appreciated on this. Thanks Juerg   9/2/2010 19:59  Ameha, do you include the link dynamically via a column in the "Info Bubble Template" setting ? Is that column of type "Hyperlink" and directly containing the document URL or is the link manually embedded in a text column ?