Drupal - Location

Location module (currently location-6.x-3.1-rc1) allows admins to collect addresses, geocode them (translate addresses to lattitude/longitude), and associate locations with Drupal nodes and users. Location provides the Location API, handles address storage and geocoding, allows users to attach locations to nodes. Location CCK provides a Location behavior as a CCK field (CCK did not play with Gmap for me). Location itself also integrates with Views; in addition to providing fields and filters for Locations, it also offers basic proximity filtering and sorting features.

The Location phone fax submodule adds phone and fax fields to Location's address fieldset. However, these fields do not appear on a node view out of the box, because their definition only allows to join with location table. The issue discussion thread provides a patch for this, which I ported by commit 696. Additionally, I provided form help for phone and fax by commit 697.

I wanted to associate a web URLs with locations. Initially I used the "additional" address field for URL, but now I use it for organization working hours or nearest metro station. Therefore, I developed the location_url submodule, which creates the new URL field (commit 698).