[TYPO3-dev] GeoLibrary + GoogleMapsLibrary

[Stefan Geith]

Hi 'GPS-addicted' Devs ;)

I searched TER for a GeoLibrary and a GoogleMapsLibrary, but I could not 
find really clear specialised extensions for that.
May be I overlooked something - if someone knows about useful plugins, 
please let me know.


Scope of a GeoLibrary (could not find anything in TER for this):
- Create a 'waypoint'-Object, from any lat/lon-information given,
   e.g.'N49 35.2134  E10 7.1223' or '49.61323; 10.127654' etc.
- Create a 'track'-Object, consisting of a list of 'waypoint'-Objects
   from any list of lat/lon-information
- Conversion fo WGS84-Coordinate from/to Deg/Min/Sec

Is there someone interested in working with me on such an extension ?


Scope of GoogleMapsLibrary
(There are some/many Extensions, that do GoogleMaps, but most of them 
directly attached to an address-table like e.g. tt_address):
- Implement the Google Map API as a PHP-Class

There are some implementations like e.g. 'rggooglemap', 'lumogooglemaps' 
  and 'dcdgooglemap', but all of them are combined with an address-table 
like e.g. tt_address (or fe_users).
Wouldn't it be useful, to have only function to access the Google Map API ?
Is there someone interested in working with me on such an extension ?

On the web I found http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/ that 
implements the Google Maps API as PHP class.
Maybe we could start from this ?

There is also an extension, that helps finding waypoints 
(=Lat/Lon-Pairs) with google-maps in the BE: 'ql_googlemap_selector'
This adds a wizard for the backend where you can select lat/lon by 
search, doubleclick and and add to Koordinates to the TCE-Form.
This (and and another wizard, that lets you create/edit tracks) would 
also be nice to have in thsi extension.


What do you think ? Any comments, hints ?

/Stefan Geith




P.S. I'll try to contact the authors of the above mentioned extensions 
whether they want to contribute.