Question

I ve been trying to build a site similar in function to craigslist in Drupal. The idea, is to make a geo-aware platform centered around bartering, instead of general classifieds or sales.

I love Drupal, but I m struggling to get location/googlemaps integration to play with the listings and ended up using too many custom snippets I got from various folks that I can t figure out how to logically extend the site. It s basically... just a big mess now.

My client needs this on a CMS so that it s relatively simple to manage... but I don t know if anything besides drupal has the simplicity for the design and the nice back-end for the client.

Any suggestions? I m dangerously close to the deadline and don t have the funds to outsource, so if I can t come up with a solution, I m going to be SOL.

Answer 1

Why not just use taxonomy for the locations, do a one time population of the regions and be done with it. It s difficult for me to imagine that there are many places that you need actual geocoding, but any time that you do, it s hard to imagine that you ll find anything that does what you want "out of the box".

Create a static vocabulary for regions (Texas->Houston, Florida->Miami, etc ), and a vocabulary for items (Electronics, Gigs, etc) and call it a day.

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