Mapping content

The next morning at the office, Lynn called Jim. "Hi, Jim."

"Hi, Lynn. What can I do for you?"

"I got the featured properties carousel working pretty easily last night."

"That's great. Some of the modules have made great progress migrating to Drupal 8."

"I was going to add a map, but I didn't see a Drupal 8 version of the GMap module that we have on our current site. How are we supposed to build maps in Drupal 8?"

"Some modules have been slow to join the Drupal 8 party. GMap and Location, two modules that have been the mainstay of Drupal 6 and 7, don't appear to have made any progress towards a Drupal 8 version. Leaflet might be an alternative that is just getting a Drupal 8 version ready. Right now it is listed as alpha, but it might be in a better shape than they feel it is. One of the reasons we suggested you use the Geolocation module as an alternative to the Location module was that it comes with a relatively simple Views integration built in. It doesn't have the configurability...