Plugin Author
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
Right now the only view where pinmarkers are positioned according to lat/long coordinates is map view itself. Unfortunately, at this time, that won’t impact on single event/venue posts where the coordinates are not currently used.
Poop. All my events are guided walks for a natural history society so the ability to properly locate the meeting place is critical. I will have to look around for another solution.
Thanks anyhow – please add it to your (or at least my) wish list.
Mike
Plugin Author
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
Added!
That’s a great idea and I’ll see what I can do.
I have the exact same problem as mcreighton — the majority of pin markers dropped for venues are incorrect, and the lat/long co-ords make no difference as you point out for the single event / venue postings.
Would be great if this could be addressed asap as my site (dublin-gigs.com) also relies on accurate venue locators for the end user.
Plugin Author
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
Sure: it’s in progress, should go out in the next release 🙂
+1
this is exactly what I need. My events happen in a forrest, in a field, etc., so I don’t even have exact addresses
Plugin Author
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
Sure – please do try out 1.5.0 which I just released.
This should replace The Events Calendar’s own embedded maps (in single event/venue views) with a new one which will utilize the lat/long data when setting up the marker.
It’s new and takes a slightly different tack than the ‘native’ embedded map so there may be stuff we need to iron out. If disaster strikes and you find single event maps suddenly start misbehaving you can restore The Events Calendar’s own standard embedded maps by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter( 'eventrocket_replace_embedded_maps', '__return_false' );
Hi, I use event rocket and now it works fine with gps coordinates in single event and venues but I want the map to be zoomed. What should I change?
thanks Barry, update works great. Only issue is the zoomed out maps as troull88 points out!
+1 for the Zoom In…
It would be great if the “Google Maps default zoom level” within Event Settings can still be used for setting the Zoom level (when using lat/long)?
Plugin Author
Barry
(@barryhughes-1)
So it will now respect the default map zoom setting (or should) and if you need to override this for any reason you can do so with the eventrocket_map_zoom_level filter hook:
add_filter( 'eventrocket_map_zoom_level', 'really_zoom_in' );
function really_zoom_in() { return 18; }
If you do take this route, you are responsible for ensuring the zoom level is a valid parameter that Google Maps will work with!
