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

Drupal Recipe for Drupal CMS (& Drupal 10+ core) 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 (10+) and in particular on its following basic variants:

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

Note: This Drupal Recipe is not working (at the moment / out of the box) with Drupal CMS 2.x releases, due to most recent configurations conflicts and settings from the Drupal core Package Manager module (experimental): as workaround before applying this Recipe with Drupal CMS 2.x, it would be helpful first to disable that experimental module.

Requirements and Dependencies Please check the following files for required dependencies:

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 Importer 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:


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```
- (in case on Drupal CMS 2.x releases eventually disable the Drupal core\
[Package Manager module](https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/core-modules-and-themes/core-modules/package-manager-module)
(experimental), to avoid cumbersome settings conflicts and restrictions from it):\
```ddev drush pmu package_manager```

- 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 & automatic Geo Map 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](https://packagist.org/packages/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](https://packagist.org/packages/pschocke/google-maps-links) php library;
- etc ...

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

### Authors/Credits
- Italo Mairo - [itamair](https://www.drupal.org/u/itamair) (creator and maintainer)

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