The Bakernow.com site is a news site focused on the Baker Neighborhood while also being a bit of a community resource where people can go to find useful information about businesses, organizations, laws, and the nature of the neighborhood.
Location focused: Baker in Denver
Given that it is so geographically focused, we wanted to have strong map integration for the site. We have a "Location" content type that uses the Location module. We are following a system where we create these location nodes as the basis for all geographically specific content on the site. So, when we have a photo or a story to write about a location, the first step is to create the location that the photo or story is associated with. We then use a CCK nodereference field to reference the location. This can be a tedious and confusing workflow, but there is fortunately the combination of Popups and Popups: Add and Reference which makes this a lot easier. To configure those, simply enable them and then visit the nodereference field where you get a new option:
Then, when creating a story you will see a new link under the nodereference field on the location:
Locations on the site are displayed in two places: the sidebar and in a full page map view.
