GenoPro Support Forum

I believe that the best place to display the map is in the 'popup' provided by referenceing to the Place from the individual narrative. This way it can be referenced specifically to the place, whether place of birth, death marriage etcetera and the map will only be loaded one at a time as requested. Using Google or Yahoo Maps allows us to have a fully interactive map at a zoom factor that suits the end user.

For this reason, we will never have maps pre-loaded, and we can use the latitude and longitude data entered in Genopro as you have suggested.

In my latest example at http://familytrees.genopro.com/poolzone/test/ you will see by looking at the individual page for member 2B, and then accessing his place of birth, the Google Map is displayed (currently with location text box above which can be ignored).  If you look below the map, the co-ordinates are displayed from the Genopro file.

I do not have enough programming knowledge to bring these global variables from VBscript  that creates the reference to lonitude and latitude from Genopro and prints it below the map, to be used as a value within the Javascript. That is all that stops us from using the current report writer to generate a location map for any given Place entered in Genopro for which we have entered the co-ordinates.

I believe that the solution will be straight forward for a programmer of Javascript or else I'll find it in due course.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

 I look forward to it's developement with interest as I might want to include it in my tree one day when it is perfected by the "experts"

I have posted an example report based on the Harry Potter familiy tree here http://familytrees.genopro.com/Ron/HarryPotter/default.htm. Most of the places in this report are in the Education narratives, so it is probably easier to use the places index and work back form the place reference to the education/occupation to see it working. The 'geocoder' does not seem to be as good as the standard Google Maps location search unfortunately. This is just a simple use at present. Next I am looking at producing a Google Map with all the tree's places on it. I hope to use place category to control which markers are displayed at each zoom level using the Google Maps API 'marker manager'. Let me know of any other wish-lists for mapping of GenoPro data.

Update: just added double-click 'center and zoom in' and double right-click 'zoom-out' to make map navigation easier.