Geolocation for events

[David]

Does your product have a geolocation function,

i.e. can events be automatically filtered based on the users location?

Thanks,

Dave

[Ki]

Hey this was also what my problem is! I looked around and seems like they are allowing geolocation only for paid version. But then I just found a way round it, which requires a little bit more work. See if it works for you too:

You can go to google map and locate the exact location you are looking. Then you right click and select “what’s here”. And you’ll get the “official address” from google to recognize this exact location. And if you use this “official address” to set your venue, it will show up correctly in your event map. For one of my cases the google “official address” is very awkward. It’s called “fountain” but I wanted to show the park’s name instead. So I used the park’s name as the venue’s title and it looks just as nice on the events page.

Hope it helps!

[Brook]

Howdy Ki,

Thanks for sharing. That’s a great tip! Getting the official address can help in some areas and is often a good idea for Google’s Geolocator, but it’s less helpful in outdoor areas or some foreign lands with no official address and only lat/long coordinates.

To clarify geolocation is included in both The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro. Geolocation is looking up the Lat/Long coordinates based on the address you typed in. In both plugins we do a geolocation lookup for the address and store the coordinates in your DB. The only thing exclusive to Pro is the ability to override Google’s returned coordinates with custom lat/long ones of your own choosing. This is helpful in areas where Google maps is inaccurate and does not return the correct marker automatically.

Events can be filtered based on a users location. Events Calendar Pro allows you to search for events near any given location. So a user can search their area, or an area they are interested in traveling to, and see a map marker for each event nearby that location and a list of said events. If you wanted the calendar to automatically search nearby events for the users that is somewhat possible. You could gecode their IP, which is notoriously inaccurate, but even still some large website like Google rely on this. From there you have a guess at the users location, and you could automatically will that location as a location search when they visit the page. This would be a small customization to the Pro addon.

Does that answer all of your questions? Do you have anything else I could help with?

Cheers!

– Brook

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