EEA Geotags

EEA Geotags

EEA Geotags package redefines the location field in Plone. Right now in Plone location field is a free text field. EEA Geotags lets you easy define locations using a map picker and http://geonames.org geographical database.

Introduction

EEA Geotags is an alternative for the default location field in Plone.

Main features

EEA Geotags features:

  1. User friendly search for locations
  2. Map preview of selected locations
  3. Suggest geographic entities based on http://geonames.org
  4. Country/regions drill down selection, including several layers like biogeographical region, countries group, country, nuts region, city and natural feature
  5. The widget can be used as single or multiple location picker

Also read README.txt under eea.alchemy.

More details about how to use this package can be found at the following link:

  1. http://taskman.eionet.europa.eu/projects/zope/wiki/HowToGeotag

Installation

The easiest way to get eea.geotags support in Plone 4 using this package is to work with installations based on zc.buildout. Other types of installations should also be possible, but might turn out to be somewhat tricky.

To get started you will simply need to add the package to your “eggs” and “zcml” sections, run buildout, restart your Plone instance and install the “eea.geotags” package using the quick-installer or via the “Add-on Products” section in “Site Setup”.

You can download a sample buildout at:

Dependecies

  1. Plone 4.x
  2. Products.ATVocabularyManager
  3. archetypes.schemaextender
  4. eea.jquery
  5. eea.alchemy
  6. eventlet

Funding

EEA - European Enviroment Agency (EU)