Elmentor

Resolved himself86
(@himself86)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi Joe,

Great looking plugin, although I’m having trouble getting the maps to display when I use the shortcode in Elementor.

We use the maps to provide free motorcycle touring routes. You can see an example of what I’d like to achieve here. https://fliesonthevisor.com/sauerland-spectacular-free-touring-routes/

On the topic of extra features … When I add a GPX file it shows the way points if I have the direct (straight line) tracks shown. When I remove this to show just the road route, the waypoint markers are also removed.

I’ve only just started using Waymark, so if this is all in the documentation (I did look :-)) … sorry.

Regards Dave

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Thread Starter himself86
(@himself86)

8 months, 1 week ago
Hello again,

I managed to get a lot of it working by using the HTML widget and coding it rather than using the Elementor shortcode widget directly
```
<div class="map-container">
  [Waymark map_id="26344" map_height="640" shortcode_header="0"]
  <div class="map-meta" style="border: 2px solid black; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 10px; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; margin-top:-10px">
    <span>Distance: 91.4 km</span>
    <a href="/wp-content/uploads/scenic-sauerland-loop.gpx" download>Download GPX File</a>
  </div>
</div>
```
A couple of extra thoughts. I’m having to code the distance and download link manually. An option to include the details in a box below the map would be outstanding (for me anyway).

When uploading a GPX file, could you import the file and store it. This would cut out the need to upload it again in to media folder for downloading. A seperate directory would be an excellent touch.

The ability not to publish the page would also be useful. Just save it so the route can be referenced on other pages.

Add to that the ability to show the waypoints on the road line – as suggested above and I’d be a happy paying customer 🙂 (how do I do that?)

Here is a demo page. It is on a staging site and so may be overwritten… Sauerland Spectacular – Free Motorcycle Touring Routes | Flies on the Visor
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Plugin Author Joe
(@morehawes)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi @himself86,

Thanks for reaching out and for the feedback. In response…

I’m having to code the distance and download link manually. An option to include the details in a box below the map would be outstanding (for me anyway).

Currently distance is displayed by Waymark alongside the Elevation Profile. I agree that it would be nice to have this displayed elsewhere and am planning on improving this in the future. It looks like your site is just displaying a single Line in each Map, so presumably you want the distance of that one Line? Because Waymark supports Maps with multiple Lines this would also need to be considered.

When uploading a GPX file, could you import the file and store it. This would cut out the need to upload it again in to media folder for downloading. A seperate directory would be an excellent touch.

This is another point that I agree with and improving the Export functionality is definitely on my to-do list.

There are some things that complicate this though – to start with getting the WordPress Media Library to accept uploading and storing GPX/KML/GeoJSON filetypes is hard to do consistently across WordPress hosting environments. Mainly because of security restrictions rejecting certain filetypes.

Also, while Waymark allows importing from file, many users make edits to their Maps after Import – so the Map you see in the Waymark Editor becomes out of sync with what was originally uploaded. I think a nice way to handle this would be to make the Maps downloadable via a URL, instead of just through the current “Download” button. Users would then have flexibility in how they integrate this.

Export Enhancements are a proposed Pro feature, which you can read more about here.

The ability not to publish the page would also be useful. Just save it so the route can be referenced on other pages.

If I understand you correctly, this is currently possible. Draft/private Maps can be displayed using the Shortcode.

On the topic of extra features … When I add a GPX file it shows the way points if I have the direct (straight line) tracks shown. When I remove this to show just the road route, the waypoint markers are also removed.

Add to that the ability to show the waypoints on the road line – as suggested above and I’d be a happy paying customer 🙂 (how do I do that?)

I’m afraid I do not follow you – could you provide further explanation?

Cheers,

Joe

Thread Starter himself86
(@himself86)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi Joe,

My mistake. Because I had two different coloured lines, it appeared as if, where the lines intersected, there was a marker at that point.

Ideally what I’d like is a dot at each waypoint listed in the GPX file, shown on the map, but the direction arrows serve a similar purpose. Making them a different colour to the line would be cool.

Thanks of for the tip of saving a draft and usingthe short code, that will save the site from a excessive number of pages,

Elevation data … none of my GPX files have that. I ran one of them through https://mapscaping.com/, which added it. It is a long process when I have so many routes and pages to convert to Waymark I’ll stick with adding the distance manually.

It is a good plugin – an excellent replacement for WP-GPX-Maps which appears to have been dropped by the developers. Thank you for taking the time to develop it.

Where do I get the Pro Version from please and help support the development — Cheers Dave

Plugin Author Joe
(@morehawes)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi @himself86,

Ideally what I’d like is a dot at each waypoint listed in the GPX file, shown on the map, but the direction arrows serve a similar purpose.

Can you provide a file that contains Waypoints which are not being displayed by Waymark? This is the correct behaviour.

I had a look at this file, which does not contain any waypoints – only route and track points.

Where do I get the Pro Version from please and help support the development — Cheers Dave

Currently there is no Pro version – I am hoping to go this route with enough interest. Currently you can support the continuation of the project through GitHub Sponsors.

Thanks!

Joe

Thread Starter himself86
(@himself86)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi Joe,

After a lot of testing of different format GPX files, the problem I have is with the routes as exported from my planner. The standard GPX Route from MyRouteApp doesn’t give WayMark what it need to show even things as basic as a start and end point.

If I import that route to Kurviger.com and then export it as a GPX Route then it marks the start and end points. If I plan the whole thing in Kurviger then I get all the markers I need.

That give me even more work to do … Such is life 🙂

Thanks for your help, in answering my questions …. best get to it.

Dave

Plugin Author Joe
(@morehawes)

8 months, 1 week ago

Hi Dave,

You are welcome. It’s worth mentioning that Waymark makes it very easy to add Markers like those you mentioned and has a GPX export option.

Thanks for your input – I am always open to feature requests.

Cheers,
Joe

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