Comments on: GeoPress

By: TunaFish

TunaFish — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:10:04 +0000

I think I found out why the plugin doesn’t work in Safari..
Because you are using Mapstraction? The examples on that website don’t work eighter.
Are you aware of this?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:15:24 +0000

Killer job on this - I used the original Geopress plugin by Ravi and it was clunky and difficult to get working. With yours I unzipped it and using a few of your helpful functions like the_address(), I had it integrated into my travelogue in no time. Which is great, because I’m leaving for a 7-month RTW trip in about 36 hours.

I did a few nice things like checked to see if the location exists before printing out “from …” on my archive pages:

http://www.ghidinelli.com/go/trips/round-the-world/

Is there a way to get the friendly display name as opposed to the full address for the geo location? It would be nice to show “Home” or “Auckland” as opposed to my full home address or the hotel where we stayed or a zip code?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:34:45 +0000

Greg, thanks for the feedback - the point of the plugin is to make it easy for non-Geo experts to easily add locations. So you’re the target user.

Diafarabé, Mali works when I try it out. One problem is that the Zoom level is too high at default. So you need to zoom out to see it.

I will be releasing an update tomorrow (Sunday, Sept 23) that should address these issues to make it a little easier for you. If you have any questions - feel free to email me (check the About page)

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:52:45 +0000

Andrew
I am seeing foreign places in Yahoo, although I didn’t intially. But Yahoo doesn’t know about as many places as Google. For example, Diafarabé.

As for the suggestion to save the settings in the post, I don’t understand that.

I’m not sure coordinates are working for me either, but I’ll test them in the US to see if they work, it just may be the low res Africa problem.

I’m definitely over my head here. I’m interested because I’ll be in West Africa for a couple of months starting in November.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:13:45 +0000

@steve - not yet, this is coming in a future version

@greg - are you not seeing foreign locations in Yahoo Maps? I would suggest then using a different map (which is easy to choose in the Options page)

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:18:58 +0000

@ andrew
Yahoo only shows US and Canada (I’ve never used Yahoo for maps, so maybe I’m missing an option).
MSN shows something, so I’ll try to point it there. Although Google maps have lots of information plus the aerial photos.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:07:39 +0000

thx for helpful reply to my question.

How about my gpx question?

Many thx

By: losio fereer

losio fereer — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:36:28 +0000

pleas I want the earth maps api

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:14:14 +0000

Thanks for all the feedback. These are really great suggestions.

@steve - good question. Right now the macros don’t allow selecting street/sat/zoom - this is being added

@tom - GeoPress actually currently gets the YahooMap image url - but doesn’t replace it for RSS, this is on the list to be added

@greg - The problem is that the GeoPress map is defaulting to Satellite imagery, and there may not be any for Bamako, Mali at that Zoom level. Have you tried Yahoo or Microsoft Map? Also, as steve suggested, I need to add the ability to set Zoom and MapType in the INSERT_MAP.

Actually, one suggestion was to setup the map in the ‘Post’ screen like you want it to look like (sat/street/hybrid, zoom level, center point) and then store those settings as the settings to use in the posted map.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:36:16 +0000

I can’t get Bamako, Mali to show up correctly. When I initially put it into WordPress, it is zoomed out too far and then shows nothing if I use the INSERT_MAP.

Thanks

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:23:42 +0000

Good to meet you in Brussels last weekend - well done for getting it out of the door in time, and thanks for using Mapstraction!

One thing I thought would be good for a blogging plugin, that I’ve mentioned to Mikel before, would be to make an interface on a static image API (Yahoo has one) for red-dot maps. That way an image would show up in aggregators and without javascript, and could be swapped out for an interactive map if needed (or only on the post page, perhaps, instead of having 10 Google maps on the front page). Of course, the interactive maps are often overkill anyway, so this would have potential usability benefits.

I’ll be taking a closer look at GeoPress soon, and hopefully I can contribute.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:58:31 +0000

Great plug-in. Well done.

Is there more documentatio somewhere?

For example:
Is there an option to pick type of google map (Satelitte, hybrid, map) and zoom level - my map keeps using a different zoom than the one I selected in the “write” area. . Sorry can’t seem to see it.

You mention the ability to upload GPX file. Is there more info somewhere on how exactly to do this?

Regards