NOTE: Adapters are currently not available to registered users or subscribers.  We have not determined if/when/how they will be made available. Now that I have the adapter work for pro mostly complete, I decided to take it out for a test drive using something other than Community Builder.    A recent subscriber had contacted me to see about whether or not GMaps could support taking a GPX (see http://www.topografix.com/gpx_for_users.asp for more info on GPX) file and plot it on a GMaps map.   This particular request had caught my attention primarily because it sounded interesting and allowed me to see how the adapter code would support a non-database driven datasource.  Now, that may mean more code refactoring for me but what the heck.

Anyway, below is a screen image of the test map I produced with this adapter.  The adapter does really nothing more than parse the  GPX file, obtains the latitude/longitude values and constructs a polyline object based on the GMaps object model (which continues to be refined).   GMapsPRO uses both the markers from the GMaps database as well as the adapter when it renders the map.  In fact, you can even combined that will a KML file from Google MyMaps.  That may make it a bit cluttered though depending on the objective.   

Now, for those hiking/biking enthusiasts who use Joomla and GMaps, the potential is there that you can use an adapter like this, or write your own, to pull in your favorite hiking trail and plot markers on the map for specific landmarks.

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