Location Finder with Zero Coding Using Drupal Location, Gmap and Views Modules

Drupal is such a powerful and mature platform that you can build a full featured location finder (e.g. Store Locator) with zero coding.

Features:

• A very flexible Store Location content type with any number and types of custom fields
• Import any number of store locations from a CSV file
• Automatically geocode (assign latitude & longitude) the locations based on the address
• A search form and result listing with exposed filter to enter the zipcode
• Show distance of the location from user’s zipcode and sort by distance
• Show all matching locations on an interactive map

Steps:

1. Install and configure the location module (use 7.x-3.x-dev version)
2. Create a content type for Store Location, including the custom fields relevant to your business
3. Download a CSV sample file and import using feeds module with location_feeds
4. Create a view with “page” display, a “gmap” attachment display, and an exposed filter to enter the zipcode
5. Package the whole setup as a feature