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fylr-custom-data-type-geonames

Custom Data Type "GEONAMES" for fylr

This is a plugin for fylr with Custom Data Type CustomDataTypeGeonames for references to entities of the GeoNames geographical database).

The Plugins uses http://ws.gbv.de/suggest/geonames/ for the autocomplete-suggestions and GeoNames database for additional informations about GeoNames entities. Maps are displayed via the mapbox-API.

installation

The latest version of this plugin can be found here.

The ZIP can be downloaded and installed using the plugin manager, or used directly (recommended).

Github has an overview page to get a list of all releases.

configuration

In manifest.yml you can configure:

• schema-options:

  • which [featureclasses] (http://www.geonames.org/source-code/javadoc/org/geonames/FeatureClass.html) are offered for search.
  • if a mapbox-token is added, the plugin shows geonames-places in a static map.
  • if a valid geonames-username is given, fulltext will be available

• mask-options:

  • wether to show a dropdown with available featureclasses (place-categorie) or not
  • wether to show a dropdown with available featurecodes (place-type) or not
  • default country for the country-dropdown (2 digits-code)
  • default value for search expansion (Records of the lowest administrative level ("admin4") are also found via the higher-level administrative unit ("admin3"))
  • wether the ancestors are shown in hitlist
  • editordisplay: default or condensed (oneline)

• base-config:

  • "days"
  • "default_language"
  • "geonames_username"

saved data

• conceptName
  • Preferred label of the linked record
• conceptURI
  • URI to linked record
• conceptFulltext
  • fulltext-string which contains: geonameId, adminName1, adminName2, adminName3, adminName4, adminName5, countryName, toponymName, alternateNames
• conceptAncestors
  • the parent hierarchy of the selected record
• conceptGeoJSON
  • point or polygon as geoJSON
• frontendLanguage
  • the frontendlanguage of the entering user
• facetTerm
  • custom facets, which support multilingual facetting
• _fulltext
  • easydb-fulltext
• _standard
  • easydb-standard
  • geo

updater

Note: The automatic nightly updater can be configured. Make sure to also activate the corresponding fylr service.

sources

The source code of this plugin is managed in a git repository at https://github.com/programmfabrik/fylr-custom-data-type-geonames.