Category on the map.

[kkwadrat]

Hi, I would like to mark on the map the different categories of events of different icons.
I would also like that if you select a category on the map only selected category will be displayed.
Is this possible, and if so, how?

Thanks for the help!

[Julie Kuehl]

Hi kkwadrat,

We appreciate your interest in the map feature. However, the icons are determined by Google and not by our plugin, so they’re not something you could customize using our hooks. There is a way to limit the map to display only one category, you’d just need to create a separate page to do that. You might find some useful information in our Themer’s Guide https://theeventscalendar.com/support/documentation/events-calendar-themers-guide/.

If you have any additional questions, since you’re an existing customer, you can ask these types of questions in our The Events Calendar PRO forum. They’ll be able to help you with specific questions there.

I hope that helps!

— Julie

[kkwadrat]

Honestly I was hoping for a more specific answer than “it’s impossible” or “you can find the answer somewhere on the internet.”
Even if the icons are determined by Google, you may be able to add or use them in your script (there are plugins for wp that is capable of displaying icons in google maps). Is not it?

In the following link I have not found useful information on how to display on the map the events of a single category.
I have a separate page that displays a map, but in contrast to other views (list, month) displays all events, not just those in the selected category.

[Rob]

Sorry if we let you down, kkwadrat! I’d definitely be interested in hearing more from you as to why you’d think – either via being misled by our own documentation, or something else – we’d be able to provide a more specific solution here? If there’s something out there suggesting this is a built-in function, I’d love to hear it.

Otherwise, as Julie noted, this is unfortunately not something our plugin has control over. The maps are generated using the Google Maps API, which we’re just calling on from our plugin…but once we’ve passed the address data to them, everything else is handled on Google’s side.

Sorry we couldn’t offer more here. This may well change with updates to the API and corresponding changes to our plugin down the road, but at the moment it’s sadly not possible without cracking the hood and hacking at the core files (which we don’t recommend). Please let us know if you need anything else!

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