mappa - new gmap plugin for rails
Posted by nito, Fri Dec 28 01:34:00 UTC 2007
Seasons greetings to all!
As my gift to the community I have made a first public version of Mappa.
Mappa is a Rails plug-in map-creation API for creating maps embedded in html web pages. Presently it only supports Google's Gmap2 API. It was written primarily because of the hacks required to make the Cartographer.rb rails plugin work with the new Gmap2 API.
Following on from a basic implementation I got frustrated with the amount of javascript I was having to embed within my controller code, a necessity because of the dynamic nature of many of the maps (and map creation techniques) I was using. The result was the latest version of mappa which enables you to build your map Javascript from external files.
Mappa has been written specifically to provide Spotcrime.net with handy and useable Google maps. Take a look to get an idea of the potential of Mappa.
Over the next few days I will provide a series of tutorial articles to help with using Mappa.
Hi Nito,
Thanks for the plug-in. I’ve just started working on a pet project of mine again and found that everything I’ve “learned” about Rails & google maps so far has mysteriously disappeared from my brain ;-)
Googling lead me to you site. I wil start giving it a “spin” asap.
Kind regards
Johannes