Add google map layers

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Created on 27 March 2025, 9 days ago

Problem/Motivation

As mentioned in the 4.x planning issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/farm/issues/3488918#comment-15867423 🌱 [META] farmOS 4.x Active

add google layers (abandon farm_map_google contrib → module) (depends on openlayers 9+)

We have an existing issue describing more of our history using Google Maps in OL + farmOS-map and why we decided to move it out to a contrib module :https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-map/issues/99

We can do this because Google now has a dedicated Maps Tile API that is supported by OpenLayer's new dedicated Google Source

With these recent developments, things should be much easier going forward!

Steps to reproduce

N/A

Proposed resolution

Let's model the core farm_map_mapbox module approach. Create an optional core module that when enabled & configured with an API key, displays google map layers.

Remaining tasks

Add support for Google Maps in farmOS-map.
Add a new farm_map_google to farmOS core that enables these map layers
Create settings form to manage Google Maps API key (follow patterns in the core farm_map_mapbox module)

User interface changes

Google Maps available as layer options (Roadmap, satellite and terrain?)

API changes

None

Data model changes

None

📌 Task

Status

Active

Version

3.0

Component

Miscellaneous

Created by

🇺🇸United States paul121 Spokane, WA

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Issue created by @paul121
Comment 9 days ago →
🇺🇸United States paul121 Spokane, WA
@m.stenta - just want to double check and see if you are still thinking we should add Google Maps support to farmOS core instead of keep it in contrib farm_map_google?

@symbioquine and I chatted about it some on the dev call today. Since the Drupal module side of things should be fairly straightforward (and similar to Mapbox) it doesn't seem like a huge maintenance burden to add to core, so we are generally in favor of that.
Comment 8 days ago →
🇺🇸United States m.stenta
Yes! That was my hope too.

Since the will share the same module namespace (farm_map_google) I think we'll have to wait to introduce the module to core in 4.x, and deprecate the current contrib module in the meantime. More notes here:

https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-map/issues/99#issuecomment-2761151470

https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS-map/issues/99#issuecomment-2761155869

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