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Present your photos in a Google map.
To show your photos in a google map is easy and fast. Just enter the coordinates when you add a new photo or edit an existing one. If you prefer to use the MAP theme instead, see below instructions on how to do it. MAP theme istructions Set up a single album:: - Set up the theme for an album
- log in to Gallery
- Navigate to the album to which you want the Map theme applied
- Click the Edit Album link
- Click the Custom Fields tab
- Add 2 Photo fields called GPSLAT and GPSLON
- Save
- Enter the GPS info for the images in the album, Edit each image
- for each one, click on the Custom Field tab
- enter the appropriate lat and long values
- Click the Album tab
- Set the theme to Map
- Save
- Click the Theme tab
- You're now on a page very similar to the one you encountered in Basic Configuration except that the configuration here applies only to this album. This is probably the point at which you want to set the initial center (lat and long (format: lat,long)), zoom level (0..17, lower is more zoomed in (NOTE: for version 1.0.7 higher is more zoomed in)), and map type of the theme. Other configuration of what's displayed and where also occurs on this page.
- Save
Set up an album with sub-albums(s): - -Create an album.
- -Edit customfields
- -Add a common field named GPSLAT and one named GPSLON
- -Add items (photos) to this album
- -Edit their GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Add a sub-album
- -Edit it's GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Add items (photos) to the sub-album
- -Edit their GPSLAT and GPSLON customfields and add coordinates
- -Set the sub-album theme to the map theme
- -Set the theme of the sub-albums's parent to the map theme
- -Access the parent album
- -The map will show green markers representing the items (photos) in the parent album
- -The sub-album on this map will have a red marker representing the sub-album
- -Click the red marker and a new map will be displayed showing green markers representing the items (photos) in the sub-album
- NOTE: Both album and item marker colors are selectable in version 1.0.7
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