Google Mapping Placing in Wrong Place

Resolved earthlyideas
(@earthlyideas)

10 years, 3 months ago

I’m testing the plugin to see whether to buy the full version and use it on http://www.burnhamdeepdale.co.uk

I’ve created a few sample events http://www.burnhamdeepdale.co.uk/events/ but finding that the Google mapping isn’t placing the icons in the right place.

For example, Deepdale Christmas Market which is at postcode PE31 8FB. That postcode should take the maps directly to Dalegate Market in Burnham Deepdale, which it does on maps.google.co.uk or maps.google.com. However on the listing for the event, the map actually points to Brancaster, a completely different village.

Any ideas what is happening?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/

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Barry Hughes
(@websitebakery)

10 years, 3 months ago

Hmm, that’s a bit strange but I’m not sure how much we can influence this. To take that specific example, the following address is passed to Google’s geocoder:

Main Road Burnham Deepdale Norfolk PE31 8FB United Kingdom

What comes back, which is different from pasting that same address or just the postcode directly into Google Maps, is the point you are seeing. We’re really rather dependent on Google for this, I’m afraid, however we are considering a different strategy that might help with this sort of situation going forward.

Thread Starter earthlyideas
(@earthlyideas)

10 years, 3 months ago

Bizarre isn’t it. Would be great to get sorted as we’d love to use the calendar plugin and buy the pro version so we can promote lots of events, but with the current mapping they’ll all end up being placed in the same place rather than different points along the road.

Barry Hughes
(@websitebakery)

10 years, 3 months ago

Definitely.

We are looking at some changes (to consistently pass longitude and latitude across for all map uses) that could improve things in this sort of scenario, but that’s something that is yet to be scheduled.

Plugin Contributor leahkoerper
(@leahkoerper)

9 years, 7 months ago

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that we were able to work on this issue for our upcoming 3.8 release. Keep an eye out on your site for an update announcement! If you update and are still seeing this problem, please post a new thread so we can check it out. Thank you for your patience while we got this fix in place.

Best,
Leah
and the team at Modern Tribe

Thread Starter earthlyideas
(@earthlyideas)

9 years, 7 months ago

Sounds good, look forward to seeing the addition.

Plugin Contributor leahkoerper
(@leahkoerper)

9 years, 6 months ago

Version 3.8 is now available for download 🙂

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