Yes, it is actually coming along quite nicely. I've ironed out a number of issues and hope to have something to release relatively soon. It might not be for a few weeks though...this week I will be in Portland OR for OSCON 05, which should be a blast but won't leave me much time to work on the module. If anyone is there and wants to see the module, I can give you an in-person demo!

Regarding directions...AFAIK the api still doesn't support that. People have gotten around the issue by doing stuff like making calls to maps.google in a hidden iframe, doing some parsing, etc. That sort of thing definitely violates the terms and the breakage potential there is pretty high.

ackbar - Yes, I would be. I intend to submit something as soon as I complete some cleanup on my module.

pkpdjh - I actually had intentions of adding something similar to what you are talking about, except in my case it would be to locate buildings at Duke campus.

Directions are a slightly different matter as the Google API doesn't support giving directions at this point. What I will probably end up doing is providing a similar "From this place / To this place" type interface in the info window that appears above a marker and then just link off to Google for the directions. Of course, in my case, most of the buildings on Duke campus have campus addresses, so the directions wouldn't help me too much. I have seen some discussion in the Google maps API group about extensions which allow you to pull in the directions from Google, so that might also be an option for the future.

Hello,

I actually have a rough module that integrates Google maps as a module. It is still very much a work in progress but I basically intend to allow all the standard map features, plus an admin section that allows you to define markers via a click and edit interface (also utilizing AJAX).

If anyone is interested in this module I'd be more than willing to share (just send me a PM). At this point it is definitely not "production" worthy however you might find it to be a good starting point for your own Google map hack.

Best,

Jeff

Hello,

I've created a module essentially for me to have a solid starting point for creating more complex modules. It doesn't really DO anything other than install / uninstall and have some dummy data / settings.

So my questions are...

1) Does something like this already exist somewhere and I was just unable to find it? If so, where?

2) If it doesn't exist does anyone have any interest in it for their own use? If so, where should I submit it so that everyone can access it (it doesn't really belong in modules - it should probably go in the help docs honestly).

I think that if I had this when I was starting, it would have made my module development much easier because you can see the bare-bones components of a module pretty easily.

Thanks

Jeff