Drupal Quick Tip: Create a Google map with Custom markers on Drupal in just 5 steps

1. Get the Latitude and Longitude of your map

• Go to http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm  and enter in the address. Click Go!

2. Get the API Key for your site

• Go to https://developers.google.com/maps/signup and enter in the website URL, then generate a key (this will need to be done twice, once for the dev site and again when we knew the live URL.

3. Get the JS code for to place it in you block

• Go to http://mapmaker.donkeymagic.co.uk/ and enter in the Latitude and Longitude [Step 1]. 
• Give the marker a name such as "myMarker". 
• Enter in the address into the Popup Content box.
• Click Add marker.
• Then click the"Share map" button
• Select JavaScript tab and you will see code generated. Copy that code.

4. Go to your Drupal site and add new block. Paste in the code. On the 7th line, it says key= and then some numbers and letters. Replace that entire line with the key you generated.

• Then within the function loadMap(), replace:
•  icon0.image = "http://www.google.com/mapfiles/marker.png"; icon0.shadow = "http://www.google.com/mapfiles/shadow50.png";
• with
• icon0.image = "/sites/all/themes/THEMENAME/images/MARKER-NAME.png"; icon0.shadow = "/sites/all/themes/THEMENAME/images/MARKER-SHADOW-NAME.png";

5.  Set the Block to the desired region/view.  And that's it ...!

Drupal Quick Tip: Drupal 7 FAQs | Drupal Modules | Drupal Panels | Drupal Questions | Drupal Doubts

Common

• What is Drupal?

http://drupalthread.blogspot.com/search/label/Drupal%20Introductions

• What is module in Drupal?

Module is like an addon/plugin that you install and enable in drupal to enhance and

expand features in your site. The modules are developed by the drupal community

Drupal 7

• How do I get the Admin menu as Drupal 6?

Install and enable the module Administration module and Disable the module “Toolbar”

which comes with the core modules in Drupal 7

• How to enable the “PHP Code” filter when creating a content?

Go to Modules list (/admin/modules) and enable “PHP filter” module under core category

• I cannot create a Panel Page in panels !

Enable the  “Page manager” module in the modules page

• I want to create a content type which has my taxonomy terms as a field too !

When creating a feild in your content type make sure you select the field-type as

“Term reference”

• Can I create dummy contents in Drupal 7?

Yes, you can!

Install the Devel module and enable the Devel Genrate module too (which is a sub

module of it)

• How to add conditional stylesheets in Drupal 7

Download and install the “conditional stylesheets” module from

http://drupal.org/project/conditional_styles and add the below code in your .info file as

need

  conditional-stylesheets[if IE 7][all][] = ie7.css

• Where do I place my new custom panel layout?

It should be placed in layout folder inside your theme folder eg:

sites/all/themes/mytheme/layouts

Every week we update the article! stay tuned !