There have been many requests for additional features to be added to WP Geo. The following is a list of some that are under consideration for future versions. If you have any suggestions please post a comment at the bottom of this page.
- Map of all posts with links to posts?
- Map of recent locations with links to posts?
- Load a remote KML file?
- Multiple points in a single map?
- Extra control through shortcode?
- Extra hooks for plugin developers?
For more issues and feature requests visit the WP Geo Issues page on Google Code
# Map of all posts with links to posts?
# Map of recent locations with links to posts?
YES please!!!!
Then it rock!
Regards
/magnus, stockholm, sweden
# Multiple points in a single map?
OH YES! this would be great
# Map of all posts with links to posts?
this would be also very nice
Map of all posts is definitely a very popular request and should hopefully be ready to release soon.
In the latest version WP Geo 3.0.1 all markers now link to posts.
editing a text of marker which is displayed when mouse is over
# Multiple points in a single map?
# Extra control through shortcode?
yes, that whould be very usefull
Hi,
the plugin looks great. But I need one more thing to take full advantage of it and wanted to ask if it is already included: I have installed a plugin to display twitter messages as regular posts. Would it be possible to add my geo-location (lat/long) to the twitter message and a command to tell wp-Geo to generate a map out of this?. Taht would be relly great.
Thanks,
Peter
Hi Peter,
That sounds like a fun idea so you could plot locations via twitter. I’m currently looking at adding more control so you can add maps in your posts using shortcodes. If your twitter message gets published as a proper WordPress post then in theory once I’ve create an appropriate shortcode, you would be able to add [wpgeo lon="000000" lat="00000"] to you Twitter message and this would get displayed in WordPress as a WP Geo map.
Is that the sort of thing you were thinking?
I really would like to use such a shortcode-possibility. I’d like to write via Email to my blog and there I can’t use the backend so i need shortcodes to quote my position….
Yep thats what I am talking about. I am travelling a lot in remote areas (particulary africa). I always have an GPS receiver with me, so defining my position wouldnt be a problem by sending the coordinates to the blog (a publishing a map on the fly) my familie would always be up to date about my whereabouts. (And it could save ones live, too
Thanks, Peter
Great stuff!
How about a adding a location to a user profile?
Sites with multiple authors, subscribers or admins can pin point themselves and find eachother on a worldmap
#Load a remote KML file
This would be awesome!!!
I would really appreciate a “default location” setting because most of my posts are from home, and I don’t want to have to enter my address every time.
#Map of all posts with links to posts
yes, definitely a feature we’d love to see, love the plugin already, but that would just take the cake if we can get a whole map on one page with all the data in it
Any intention to be compatible with OpenStreetMaps?
Not at present. The current goal is to get the plugin into a robust state that can easily be extended to add extra functionality.
I would like to support the request for OpenStreetMap-Support. OSM by now has superior coverage in many areas around the world so this would be really helpfull. Thanks for the awesome addon,
Peter
Hello !
=> compatibility for WordPressMu and BuddyPress
=> Load KML file
=> Load WMS file (but hard)
Thank’s
Hi,
It would be fine if you add the option to add only google static maps (are simple images), the page load will be faster:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
And if the wants to view larger map or move the map the option to open it in a modal window:
http://www.emich.be/en/2007/03/01/google-maps-lightbox/
Greatings!
GREAT plugin! I would love to see the functionality you listed added in the order in which you listed it (Map of all posts with links to posts? is most important and Extra control through shortcode? is least). I wasted six hours yesterday trying to learn how to write a WordPress plugin and then I found this. Thanks so much for doing this!
Great plug-in! I believe the map marker interface needs some tweaking. I get that a map posted adjacent to a WordPress entry will likely not need lots of additional explanation. But you might want to include some little caption-type information to the marker, much like the traditional Google Map markers work. Having that appear in the roll-over might be OK, much as the post title now appears.
As for the map marker link, it’s counter-intuitive when the map is adjacent to the post. In fact, it’s completely wrong, since it simply re-displays the post. But if you change the interface for adjacent maps, it wouldn’t be correct for category maps, since clicking wouldn’t take you to the associated post.
I’m not sure what the solution is, since the placement of the maps is so flexible (a good thing!). However, it seems better to run WITH the Google Maps convention (click = info box) rather than AGAINST it (click = linking). More thoughts?
First of all: Great plug-in! Do you see any chance to enable individual zoom levels for each displayed map? Would be great!
FANTASTIC PLUGIN!
Would love to see “# Map of all posts with links to posts?” and if possible an option to select categories (all categories/ few categories) that would be awesome!!
Great plugin I use it on my blog.
I’m waiting to put a map of all posts with links to posts in a page, it’ll be perfect for my needs.
Thanks Ben
Hi!
# Map of all posts with links to posts?
Yes please!
This is REALLY a neat plugin. Thank you SO much!
Peter, Copenhagen, Denmark
This site is currently under development, and I’m using your plugin (v 3.0.7). It works great for individual posts, and using the code on the category archives page works great, too. I really like your work. One thing…and I’d be the happiest camper in the world if you could tell me how to do this, and that is this: I have the search results template set to show category names of associated posts that show up in a search result. I want to show a map on the search results page with the markers for all post results. The code that I used with the category archive page doesn’t seem to work on the search results page. I get a big blank where the map is supposed to go, but nothing shows. Am I doing something wrong, or am I using the wrong code? Please help! Like I said, if I can fix this one thing, I’d really have the functionality that I’m looking for, and this plugin would really rock!!!
Michael, I think the category map code should also work on search results pages. Can you post a link to the exact page where it is not working. Thanks.
Ben, here is a link to the search results page: http://michaelsgrapevine.com/?s=emergency&submit=Search
At this point, I have a couple of dummy businesses that I’m using for testing purposes, and these are the “posts” that shows up in this search. (I haven’t bothered to do any styling on anything until I’ve gotten the mechanics of the site working. Yes, the site is still pretty crude at this point.)
You’ll see that I put the page code right after the “before entry hook”. I don’t know if this makes a difference or not.
I really appreciate you looking into this! Thanks much!
Regards
Michael, Try updating to the development version here:
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-geo/trunk/
I thing I may have fixed your issue. There is an option on the setting page to show maps in Search Results.
Ben,
I installed the upgrade…works like a champ!!! Woohoo!!! Thanks a MILLION! I really do appreciate the attention that you gave this. I also noticed all the hard work that you did while on the google project site. Again, thanks a million. I will definitely stay tuned for any more updates or enhancements.
Michael
I would also really appreciate a “default location” setting because most of my posts are from home, and I don’t want to have to enter my address every time.
thx for your job
It will be great to have multiple marker map.
For example – I want to point on one map all the football fields in my city.. with a photo over the marker ( on mouse Over – I’ve seen this somewhere )
I agree with Otbori. There should be an option that allows all tags to be shown on the map. I am creating a site that is focused on architectural sites, so it would be very beneficial for my users to see the adjacencies of each work.
being able to search by distance would be great. eg. find posts with geocode within 10 miles.
Not sure this is possible, but if you could include the weather it would be amazing. like here http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/
Maybe it’s possible for the widget to only show the position of the latest post. Something like “Now i’m here”
Where is wether maps set？
@sxtone – The Weather Traveller plugin is a separate plugin that works in conjunctions with WP Geo. You can find out more information about how to install and use the plugin at the WordPress Plugin Repository.
Thks for respond in a timely manner!
Thank you very much for this wonderful plugin! It does exactly what we want except for one thing: set zoom levels per each map.
If you could set a parameter to select the zoom level through shortcodes it would be just perfect.
Greetings from Chile!
Christian.
I’m looking forward to using this as we sail around the world, in order to document the path that we take–it’s currently the best plugin I have found for the task. We will definitely need to be able to show all of the posts on the sidebar map though, instead of just the posts that loaded on the current screen, so hopefully that is one of the features to come soon! thanks for all the hard work
Map of all posts with link to posts!
And
Multiple points in a single map!
This is what I think this plugin should have in the future:
-Map of all posts.
-Option to add points according to traditional N/S and W/E coordinates.
-Option to search on the map according to place names, so the user can visualize points near that location.
-Coordinates automatically shown in each post page (f.e, for geocaching pourposes).
-Option for administrator/authors/contributors to upload GPX and also the option for userrs/visiors to download them in each post.
When do you thing those features could be ready?
- You can set the longitude/latitude manually using the field when adding a post in the admin. Is this different to N/S and W/E coordinates?
- The plugin adds geometa tags to the header of posts for search engines – planning to add microformats of coords in HTML – is that what you mean by geocaching?
It is cool: “Option to search on the map according to place names, so the user can visualize points near that location”
# Multiple points in a single map?
Yes please. Adding multiple locations to a single post would be very useful for me.
Hi!
I think it would be amazing if website visitors could add where they live (only name, city and skype username), so in case of a website where socializing offline is important, this feature would be very useful.
Thanks for listening!
Hi there,
I added locations to all of my posts – is it possible to show all the posts that are in the same location when I click on the location.
Our blog is a travel blog – we tag all the hotels by city, country – so few posts have the same title. When the user is clicking the marker (which probably has more than 1 marker one on top of the other) we wish to see all the hotels in this city.
Help would be sooooo appreciated!!
Great plugin BTW!! Thank you!