How I came up with ditu? Quite easy I am interested in mapping, and I like the idea to have a location based history in a blog. A lot of people are writing about their holidays, experiences and so on - why not map them?
And I want to keep it simple also for people with no GPS or so.
But time is an issue, I am quite busy at the moment so need to fight for some free space to keep on developing.
So I hope to get some new things done in the next 2 or 3 weeks…
]]>I’m going to try again. Ditu still is on my short list.
Here are my initial findings:
Ditu - Super easy for non-GPS folks. Point and click is the easiest for that set. Would love to be able to control multiple points better. Post to map link is not evident. Changing the default zoom/center is easy enough - just edit the code in the appropriate area - did it in the main map, not yet for the editor.
Geo-mashup - Single point per post, manual coordinate entry via Geo Plugin. Good admin options. Shows post with map, very cool. No thumbnail support.
Yongfook - Instant Map - Slightly different implementation than Geo-mashup. Geo-plugin interface. Thumbnail support. Having some issues with WP2.0.3, but could be related to htaccess, multi-blog conflict, or permalinks. Giving up showing post with map and this is near perfect.
Keep up the good work! I’ll be your PC, Firefox tester. How did you come up with Ditu?
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But I read all your comments and try to help where I can. Sven - I really dont know why this is happening (IE crash) but I can imagine that the HTTP Request function I use is not IE compatible. I have it on my list for the next development, sorry.D Yu it sounds like that you really would like to work with it - great I am always happy to hear some good thoughts about it.
And thanks Rob, all the things or most the things you have listed are right
I already thought about the same or similar functions.
It would be great if some people could make a debugging run through different OS and browsers - because I am developing on a MAC and have no pC around.
cheers and hope to get some “reports”
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Ability for authors to tag posts on a map through point-click, address and raw lat/long.
If an image is used in post it grabs a thumbnail and shows it in infowindow with the summary and other data like date/author name, etc.
A show on map button Like yongfook’s plug-in for posts
chers and thanks for good work.
]]>Alright, I’ll stop bugging Google about Human Rights. One thing they are kicking butt with is their mapping technology. Remember the ‘old days’ when Mapquest was the big deal? Working in an info center exposes me to my share of int…
]]>Here’s what I did over coffee this morning. Activated Plugin, created new page template ‘ditu’ and inserted the code after content, made a new page based on that template, added location using ditu map in post admin. Done!
I can see great potential here, especially the tagging of post/coordinates. Is the map being generated from an RSS feed? That is neat too. Please, here are some requests:
1. A map in the post admin is awesome for most users, I’d love to be able to manually input lat/longitude.
2. Default zoom/location/map type for both map and post admin gmaps.
3. Ability to link to the map location from the post - ie. ‘view post on map’ button.
4. More options for the Gmap info window - ie. excerpt, thumbnail support.
5. The ultimate - GPX file support. I’d love to be able to upload and associate an entire gpx file with a post somehow. This would be the coolest plugin ever.
Cheers!!! TGIF, if I get some time I’m gonna play with your code. Great work.
]]>API Generated but, as you will see here, http://www.massimocristaldi.com/wordpress/, no way to have a map displayed… It stops just on a “loading map…” screen…
Help please,
Massimo
]]>Your plugin works great. The only problem I seem to have is that the map isn’t zoomed in by default, so you get a picture of the world and red markers. Is there anyway to set your plugin to zoom in to a certain amount by default.
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