Reviews

On May 31 Ross Collicutt wrote: Mapping with Drupal: Great Drupal mapping overview with tutorials
I assumed this book was either going to be too technical or too high-level to be useful for me. I was wrong. Thomas and Alan strike a balance between high-level view of mapping in Drupal and step-by-step technical tutorials Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On Jan 11 Shawn Day wrote: Superb for Novice and Expert Alike
Mapping with Drupal by Alan Palazzolo and Thomas Turnbull provides a hands-on, in-depth exploration of a the most popular tools for turning your favorite CMS into a geospatially enabled data management system. Contextualising and demonstrating modules such as Geofield, GMap and Location modules and the OpenLayers framework, Palazzolo and Turnbull provide a superbly crafted guidebook to allow a user to quickly get up to speed and undertaand the strengths and weaknesses of available solutions. Background information on cartography and a limited amount on extending Drupal quickly brings a novice up to speed. Subsequent chapters take a practical approach and the step-by-step instructions lead the reader through concrete real-world examples. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0