Google Maps location

[Robert]

Street addresses are not accurate for events that are off road. (almost 10km’s away in some cases)
Will GPS co-ordinates work, and if so, in what format ?

[Rob]

Hey Robert. Sorry to hear you’re having issues; any chance you can show me an example of this?

To answer your question: we’ve only had a couple users ever try it, but GPS coordinates should work if you input them like so: http://cl.ly/2l333G1r1y2V1s3B1B3B. Note that will take effect for the embedded map & map link, and will display fine when interacting with Google. But if you use those GPS coordinates as I did in that screenshot, WordPress won’t do anything to fill in the city, state, country, etc. You’ll have to do that manually.

Hope this helps. If you have any other questions or if I misinterpreted your request here, let me know.

[Robert]

Hi Rob

Thanks for the quick reply.

hmmm… it sort of works.
If you have a look at: http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_-33.749_18.552.html (and zoom in), you’ll notice that the club house is next to the field, but miles from any road (access is via the north east at -33.747555 18.558394).

However; the maps plugin at the same co-ordinates ( -33.74898 18.55156 ) or ( -33 44.939 18 33.094 ) (either format works btw) situates the club at the closest road to the west (-33.747216 18.546374). Unfortunately this is a highway and there is no option to turn around for a couple of miles.

Have a look at (-33.74898 18.55156) on maps.google.com and then set up a test venue with the same co-ordinates)

In addition to the GPS co-ordinates, if you specify:
1. a city, then it centers on the city
2. a state or province, then it centers on the state or province
3. a country, then the map does not show at all

Could you guys add an optional GPS co-ordinates field to the address so that if it is completed then the map uses those co-ordinates. This would allow us to also then specify an address for visual purposes, and yet still have the map.

Is there any way to get google not to jump to the closest ‘marker’ ?

Cheers
Rob

[Rob]

Hey Robert. Thanks for following up; bummer to see that doesn’t function quite as we’d hoped. I’ve logged this for discussion in a future release – while I can’t guarantee when and if it’ll make the cut (we’re in a code freeze through 2.1 at this point), but since a few folks have requested this I think there’d be value in including it.

In the interim, let me see if one of our devs has any suggestions for getting Google to jump to the closest marker. The support team is pretty limited this week and next due to the holidays, but I’ll do my best to get you an answer before we close for a week at the end of Friday.

[Joey Kudish]

Hi Robert,

Unfortunately this is a limitation of Google Maps and not something we can do anything about. That being said, when I search with the exact coordinates I get a green arrow which points to the exact location, in addition to the red A which shows the closes marker. See http://f.jkudi.sh/D6Ok . Is this not what you are seeing?

Regarding the GPS coordinates, as Rob said, we’ll probably be adding that to a future version, but can’t confirm exactly when just yet.

Thanks & let us know if you have any further questions

[Tom]

I have had exactly the same problem and it is a pain in the arse.

However, for only a few odd events where I have this problem the simple solution (at least for showing the map) is to simply enable the GPS dropper in Google Maps Labs, drop on a location to get the co-ords. Then search for them giving you the marker… then simply embedding it as the first line of the post and turn it off in the plugin?
Looks identical this way.
But please please make this a priority in the next build 🙂

[Rob]

Hey Tom. Thanks for keeping this one alive 🙂 We do have this logged but I would recommend logging it in the feature request thread (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/events-calendar-pro-feature-requests/). We’re using that as a major basis for determining future releases so votes are definitely worth something there.

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