Shortly after the release of “Buddyvents – The Ultimate Events Solution for BuddyPress” ShabuShabu released “Mapology – The Ultimate Maps Solution for BuddyPress”, another plugin for the popular platform BuddyPress.
With Mapology it is possible to add various Google Maps (v3) including routes for groups, members and posts to a BuddyPress installation.
Check out some of the features of Mapology:
- Overview map for members and (optionally) groups
- Activity stream integration for users
- Profile integration
- Uses MarkerClusterer for basically unlimited numbers of markers
- Search radius for users, activity and groups (available from BP 1.3)
- Blog integration (shortcodes)
- User routes
- Routes can be attached to a group
- Activity integration
- Attach coordinates to blog posts
- Export as KML file
- Custom location post type
- Geo sitemap of all kml files
- Adds geoRSS info to normal feeds
- Feeds for global, member and group routes
- Group admins can remove routes from their group
- Routes directory, groups and member overview maps
- Integration with BP Moderation
- oEmbed support for route descriptions
- Grid view for routes
- Widget
- English
- German
For future versions the following features are planned:
- AJAX pagination
- AJAX route creation
- Import KML files
- Route categories
- Route tags
- Directions
- Frontend locations submission
- Custom infowindows
- Configurable distance search (e.g. 10 km from a chosen city)
- Proximity filtering for profiles
- Blog posts/location post type overview map
- Add super admin menu (edit/delete)
- Sort routes by continent/date/anything else
- Set default directory map locations (for user/groups and directories)
- Highlight locations tab on custom post type and custom taxonomies
- Refactor to use http://code.google.com/p/phpgooglemapapiv3/
- Combine KML files together for download (by group/user)
- When creating/editing routes be able to stop waypoint connections
- Create a map where all pins (routes/members/groups/events/custom components) can be seen
- Random route
- Finish hook reference
- Map ratings
Upon purchase of Mapology, ShabuShabu is giving free support for v1.x of the plugin including all minor updates, e.g. v1.1, v1.1.1, v1.8.5. After every major upgrade, e.g. when the version reaches 2.0, Mapology will need to be purchased again. Please visit the ShabuShabu shop for more details.
Hello!
this:
“Search radius for users, activity and groups (available from BP 1.3)”
meaning this feature is not available until bp 1.3 is out?
also, is there a roadmap for the upcoming features, correlating to the versions leading up to 2.0?
this looks much, much better than the other options out there – gpress, which is free but busted, glocate, which is possibly a ripoff?
looking forward to your response! feel free to email me. I would love to use this on northwesternconnect.com, where we really need to search for members and filter content and whatnot.
lastly — is this a single license? Or could I purchase one, use on my two BuddyPress sites, then purchase again for 2.0?
thanks!
Search radius works already for users and activity. Only the groups search radius is not available yet.
The roadmap can be found here:
http://test.shabushabu.eu/2010/11/mapology-readme/
It’s more or less a fluid thing, though.
The plugin is only available as a multi-site license. This means you can use it on as many of your own sites as you want. You’ll have to purchase it again when v2.0 is available (if you want v2.0 that is :)
Hello, Does Mapology link in with buddyVents for locations?
If not, do you have plans to do so, I am working on a fully integrated event listing for my town that links in with Business locations.
I will be using profiles to add businesses.
Viewing an event you can click the location which will go to a page with the location, displaying image, description and a map, then below it will show all events at that location.
Thanks for the information!
Mapology and Buddyvents share the same user/group locations table, but it’s not really possible at the moment to do what you want.
You can get all the events within a certain distance of your location, but I guess that’s not really what you want.
A location based archive is a cool idea, though, so I’ll add that to the roadmap.
Thanks for the reply, I went ahead and purchased buddyvents, so far I love it! Holding off on mapology for now, but curious about something.
This changelog: Added: Support for Mapology and the options in the settings: Location Field ID – Will be ignored, if Mapology is activated.
What sort of integration do they share if its not locations linked to events?
P.S. I registered for forum support, but each time I go to login it just refreshes the page with the login fields blank.
cheers!
Hey Geet,
sorry for the late reply, mate! I’ve just added you to the support group for Buddyvents.
Mapology and Buddyvents share the same table for group and user coordinates.
~Boris
Hi Boris – The Mapology plugin seems to do 90% of what I’m after – I’m well impressed with the route creator (something I desperately need!!)
The missing 10% is the ability to put routes into categories – such as walks, cycles, runs, etc… I see this is on v2.. But do you intend to show time/distance/ascent with the routes or add a GPX upload/download feature as kml isn’t very compatible with offline mapping software (e.g. Tracklogs and Memory Map) used by walkers and mountain bikers. This 10% is stuff my site already does by using gravity forms, but i need that route creator as well :-s
Any idea on when v2 will be released?