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Plugin Description

  • ## Deprecated
  • This project is no longer active and not recommended for use.
  • It works with WordPress version < 5.0 and the gutenberg plugin. But it doesn’t work with any current version!
  • It is left here for reference

Highly customizable Map Block for Gutenberg, based on Leaflet

  • Customize the Map and its Features directly from within the Gutenberg Block
  • Draw and edit Features. Markers, Lines, Polygons …
  • Customize Feature-Appearance. Icon/Shadow, Color, Opacity, Class-Names …
  • A Wysiwyg Editor to Edit the Popup-Content. Use Images/Videos/Audios inside the Popup-Content
  • Customize the Map itself. Dimensions, Baselayers, Controls …
  • Map Features are shareable and can be used between users and posts (depending on Features settings)

Geo Masala on GitHub.
It’s open-source, free as freedom, free of cost and it will remain free.

How to use

Edit any Post with gutenberg and add a ‘Geo Masala Map’ block, save post and done. Your post will display a map.

  • Draw some Features or select some from the Feature-Panel.
    • The default Status for a new Feature is draft, only published ones are displayed in frontend.
    • To get Features from other posts/users, open Feature-Panel and adjust the Filters.
  • Edit the Feature, change status, icon or color, change the popup content and title.
  • Open the Map Settings Panel and customize the controls.
  • Change the Feature sharing settings for a single Feature, and reuse the Feature in other Posts

The Gutenberg Editor Plugin is required for WordPress versions prior to 5.0, see requirements

What is a Feature?

The term “Feature” is used in the cartographic context. A representation of a real-world object on a map (feature|Definition – Esri Support GIS Dictionary).
Within this plugin, a Feature can represent a simple location (Marker), a way/route/track (Polyline) or an Area (Polygon/Rectangle).
A couple of properties are stored with the Feature, eg. appereance and popup-content data.

How does the Plugin work?

A Feature is saved as a post type, and not saved to the Block!

  • The Plugin registered a new custom-post-type ‘geom_feature’. Each geom_feature is used to store a single cartographic Feature, formatted in geoJSON. The cartographic Feature and other data (appearance, popup-content …) are stored as post-meta.
  • The geom_feature is registered without wordpress ui (List table and editing screen) or appearance in admin-navigation or admin-bar.
  • When editing any post with gutenberg, the ‘Geo Masala Map’ block displays a leaflet map and some settings-panels beneath it. All crud actions (create, read, update, delete) for geom_feature(s) are handled within the editor block using the wp rest api and its backbone client. All geom_feature crud actions are saved immediately (Some ui elements have reset/save buttons).
  • default post_status for geom_feature(s) is ‘draft’.
  • The Features-Panel lists geom_features. Features on Map are highlighted. If a Feature gets removed from map, the geom_feature is still saved and available to use.
  • Therefor a Feature created by one post can be used in another post as well (depending on the individual feature settings). All changes made to a geom_feature are saved immediately and will effect all posts where the Feature is displayed.
  • All attributes related to the map (and not to its features) are stored as block attributes.

In Development

The Plugin is in early development (and needs a sponsor to go on).
Some ui will change and more options will be added.

Coming soon hopefully:

  • wiki and tutorials
  • Possibility to draw routes on a map.
  • Import for gpx/geoJSON/kml
  • Method to add altitude and slope values for features
  • Elevation profile for line/routes
  • Color line/routes by z value or slope

Known issues:

  • Currently there is a maximum for hundred Features, will be changed in future.
  • Feature Sharing: The popover control controls if the Feature appears in a Feature-Pool. If it is already in use somwhere, it will still be used, but just not displayed in Feature-Panel.

Contribute

I’m hungry, cycling around the world and Geo-Masala is coded while sitting wet in a tent during Monsoon somwhere in south himalaya. I appreaciate any kind of donation or sponsorship.

Thanks for beautiful ressoucres

Screenshots

  1. Block Overview

    Block Overview

  2. Edit Popup Content

    Edit Popup Content

  3. Edit Feature appearance (Marker)

    Edit Feature appearance (Marker)

  4. Edit Feature appearance (Line, Polygone ...)

    Edit Feature appearance (Line, Polygone …)


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