Placing Scaled Map View Calendar On Posts and Pages

[Mark]

Hi,
Can the calendar map view short code include map scaling to specific locations?
Example: scale and focus on Huston TX showing event markers and list events below just for Houston area?

[Nico]

Hi there Mark,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for your interest in our products 🙂

The map view adjusts the ‘scaling’ to were events are located. So if you only have events in the Huston TX area, the map will ‘scaling’ will auto-adjust to show those.

Please let me know if this answers your question,
Best,
Nico

[Mark]

Hi Nico,
Thanks for the reply.

That is close to what I mean but if there are events all around the US can an instance of the calendar be placed on a page and then focus on Houston area and not the rest of the US?

Can it be coded or whatever to do that?

Thanks,
Mark

[Nico]

Thanks for following up Mark! Sorry I missed that part, thanks for clarifying 🙂

if there are events all around the US can an instance of the calendar be placed on a page and then focus on Houston area and not the rest of the US?

Well not possible out of the box, but something achievable with some custom code for sure. Take a look at this shortcode provided to a customer, you can develop something similar to just show events of a given category → [tribe_venue_map]
Another option might be to alter the zoom/focus of the existing map after it loads (via JavaScript). In this case you can load map view (via [tribe_events] shortcode) and hide the elements around the map via CSS.

Does this sounds like something that would work for you?

Best,
Nico

[Mark]

Thanks for the help Nico!
You offered several possible customizations that may work for me on some pages/posts. I also have discovered what I believe will be useful no coding workaround for some situations by…

1. Add a temporary event for a particular city or any location – no specific address needed when creating the event.

2. Then grab the URL from the browser after searching for events for that location (Houston in below example) using the tribe bar – example is “map view”.

3. The URL can be used in a link to target that city on a specific view, map view in this example, that has the embedded shortcode calendar in any page/post.

4. Link Example:-> example dot com/thePageOrPost/?action=tribe_geosearch&tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=map&tribe-bar-geoloc-lat=29.7604267&tribe-bar-geoloc-lng=-95.3698028&tribe-bar-geoloc=Houston+TX

This moves and focuses map to desired location even if no events exist. Visitor sees targeted area of interest when landing on page/post from another page/post or external link.

Mark

[Nico]

Thanks for following up Mark! That’s a clever workaround 😉 Not sure if it will work as desired, but surely worth giving it a try!

Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you,
Best,
Nico

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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