Creating a Google 3D Map
To create and display a Google 3D Map inside Joomla articles the next steps should be followed:
WISroGIS is an extension designed for Joomla 1.5/1.7/2.5 that allows fast integration of common GIS formats to be shown on interative maps in Joomla! Content Management System.
It’s core it is based on OpenLayers – an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers.
WISroGIS offer support for most commercial mapping sources, as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Bing Maps (former Virtual Earth), OpenStreetMap and more.
Besides these maps, the user may access map data sources through the standard geospatial web services, such as WMS.
The maps can be used – embeded into Joomla articles – to present various locations or overlay any kind of geospatial information – places of interest, business locations.
This category offers a collection of tutorials for WISroGIS. The articles list is not extensive and it is continuously updated, so please come back for more information.
To create and display a Google 3D Map inside Joomla articles the next steps should be followed:
Using WISroGIS you can add articles from your Joomla site to your own maps. To achieve this, you need to associate coordinates to each article to be published on map - this process is called geotagging.
After creating the articles using Joomla's Article Manager, you need to go through the following steps: