'Hidden' settings - map type and 'default zoom'

[chrisyork]

Just in case anyone else is interested I found a useful way to display the maps in a different format (I wanted to use 'Terrain' because the images I am uploading are in the countryside nowhere near any features on the 'Roadmap' type).

In administrator/components/com_phocagallery/libraries/phocagallery/render/rendermap.php

line 149 is

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	function setMapTypeOpt( $mapType = 0 ) {

and then there is a list of different 'cases'... I just changed the $mapType :

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	function setMapTypeOpt( $mapType = 3 ) {

It strikes me that it might be possible to add this option to the settings, given that you have done the hard work! Happy to suggest this, but thought I would share it first.

Another thing to share is the default zoom level for images uploaded with geotagging taken from the EXIF data (great feature!)

Go to administrator/components/com_phocagallery/libraries/phocagallery/utils/settings.php

line 34 is :

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			$params['geozoom']			= 8;

I changed 8 to 14, so get a nicely zoomed map for each image.

I wonder if it is possible to set up a 'manual override' in the upload form - so people can select depending on the context of the image (maybe a drop down box to help with folk who don't really know their GoogleMap zoom levels!). Again happy to make the feature request.
Thanks.

[Jan]

Hi, thank you for the guide. I have added it into feature request list.

Jan