Automatically import and Geo Map all your images and photo shoots in Drupal!

Drupal Recipe for Drupal (CMS & 10+) that implements advanced Geo Mapping functionalities with Media Images

Introduction

This Drupal Recipe enhances Drupal (10 +) with advanced Geo Mapping functionalities with Media Geo Images provided with EXIF data, regarding both Shoot Location/Coordinates and Shoot Creation Date.

It is based on the advanced application and configuration of the Geofield and Drupal Media modules stacks, and is developed and tested on DrupalCMS (11+) and in particular on its following basic variants:

• Core (no recipe and pre-configuration type applied)
• Events (recipe / pre-configuration type applied)

Notwithstanding the above it may work fine and apply to any other Drupal instance where there are no existing configuration conflicts.

Requirements and Dependencies

Please check the following files for required dependencies:

• composer.json (require section)\
• recipe.yml (install section)

Instructions

How to require / install it and make it magically work (out of the box)

This Drupal Recipe enhances the advanced interaction between the Geofield, Leaflet & Geocoder geo mapping modules and the Media Library Import module, for the automatic import of your images and photo shoots.

Note: This Drupal Recipe Instructions assume the use of DDEV

Step 1: place your images ready for import

The Drupal Recipe "out of the box" configuration expects to find all you images in (and import from) the following "photo_albums" folder:

/web/sites/default/files/photo_albums

and is going to import all the images into geo images media from there.

Thus please place the images you want to import and automatically geomap in that folder of your Drupal (CMS & 10+) instance.

Warm Tip: As a first test and import it is much better not to exceed a number of images above 50 - 100, in order not to experience a too long operating process. You will always be able to perform incremental / additional imports by adding new images to the same folder, without generating duplicate imports and Geo Images (thanks to the capabilities of the Media Library Importer module).

Step 2: require and install the Drupal Recipe

Apply the following composer commands:

• Require the Drupal Recipe:
  ddev composer require drupal/drupal_cms_geo_images
• Clear the Drupal cache:
  ddev drush cr
• Install and Apply the Drupal Recipe:
  ddev drupal recipe ../recipes/drupal_cms_geo_images

As a result your Drupal instance should have the following:

• a new empty "Map" Home page (/geo-images-map) and Main Menù link;
• a new empty "Images" grid page (/geo-images) and Main Menù link;

Step 3: import and automatic Geo Map of your Images

Make double sure you placed your images in the "photo_albums" as instructed in Step 1, or in any other location, changing the Media Library Importer configuration (/admin/config/media/media-library-importer).

Then perform the Media Import operation, either manually from this Admin page:
/admin/config/media/media-library-importer/import
or throughout the following commands (worth a pre cache cleaning this time also):

ddev drush cr && ddev drush mli

and wait for the QueueWorkers complete all the import and the automatic Geo Mapping ...

All in one shot
For your convenience here is a unique line command that would perform all the above steps in one shot:
ddev composer require drupal/drupal_cms_geo_images && ddev drush cr && ddev drupal recipe ../recipes/drupal_cms_geo_images && ddev drush cr && ddev drush mli

Et Voilà! ...

You should now have:

• a new "Map" Home page (/geo-images-map) with your Goe Images displayed
  correctly, with preview icons and marker clusters;
• a new "Images" grid page (/geo-images) with your images properly displayed,
  sorted and interactively filterable by date;

Additional hints and tech notes

The Drupal Recipe:

• implements / requires the
  itamair/geo_images_custom custom Drupal module (located in packagist) to enhance specific functional logics. Feel free to check it out!
• also generates a Geometry content type, with additional parametric fields & attributes (such Stroke Color, Stroke Width, Fill Color, etc.) and Leaflet Formatter & Leaflet View Style token and Replacement Patterns presets, by which to enhance and investigate advanced Geo Mapping Drupal capabilities.
• implements automatic links to Google Maps and Streetview pages of your Geo Images, throughout the pschocke/google-maps-links php library;
• etc ...

Enjoy automatic Geo Mapping of your Photos and your Geographic Story telling in Drupal.