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I'm new to Drupal, CiviCRM, php, etc., so I apologize preemptively for my cluelessness.

I'm trying to populate a google map with data from CiviCRM contacts so that I can embed the map in a Drupal page, viewable to non-users, and it'll update when the CiviCRM contact data is changed. I've heard tell that the way to do that involves the GMap and Location Drupal modules, so I installed them and have been messing around, but I'm not figuring out how to achieve my goal.

For instance, do I have to link the CiviCRM contacts with Drupal user profiles to get them to work with Location? That wouldn't really make sense with the data I'm using, but it would be possible. If that's the case, how do you get GMap to make maps from just some users?

Are there other ways to make the map I want?

Again, I apologize for asking these questions when I've got a long way to go in understanding CiviCRM and Drupal, but I figured if anyone can point me in the right direction, it'll help. What I've read has indicated I'm going to need to write some code to get where I want, but I feel reasonably confident in my ability to learn how to do that (I can program in Java and C, so scripting languages can't be too hard... right?).

If you're trying to get to grips with the drupal gmap modules I recommend you read through this tutorial, in particular check out the two videos at the top. http://groups.drupal.org/node/19614

You can display a drupal gmap of users quite easily and I expect if you sync CiviCRM and Drupal users together that would allow you to display more information. I haven't tried this & I'm not sure what your objectives are but I hope this is helpful