Title: Feature request / support: image thumbnails on map?
Last modified: October 8, 2026

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# Feature request / support: image thumbnails on map?

 *  [muppix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muppix/)
 * (@muppix)
 * [4 days, 4 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-support-image-thumbnails-on-map/)
 * I want to migrate away from [WP-GPX-Maps] but need the ability to display image
   thumbnails for those photos on the page which have GPS coordinates. Is that something
   that [GPX Route Map] can do now, or maybe in the future? I’m happy to help with
   development / testing / translation if required.
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 *  Plugin Author [Manuel Camargo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirlouen/)
 * (@sirlouen)
 * [4 days, 4 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-support-image-thumbnails-on-map/#post-19039572)
 * You mean display little thumbnails instead of the icons?
 * I have not tested WP-GPX-Maps, but I’m not sure how do you add the images associated
   to the waypoints. Currently the plugin is simple: you don’t have much control
   over the waypoints. You can set the waypoints in the GPX file and they will display,
   but how you would associate those waypoints with the images?
 * I was thinking in the future, to add some sort of CPT called “Waypoints” that
   could be associated with the map waypoints somehow. For example, you could create
   many CPT of that kind, and then edit the GPX file and add some sort of metadata(
   for example, the slugs of the CPT), so we could add metadata to each waypoint(
   which could be things like a link, a little description, an image, selecting 
   icon to the waypoint, etc…)
 * But this would be a major overhaul on the plugin. I need to think it better.
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/GMjOiQ9.png?ssl=1)
 *  Thread Starter [muppix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muppix/)
 * (@muppix)
 * [3 days, 12 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-support-image-thumbnails-on-map/#post-19040392)
 * Thanks for the very quick response Manuel, I appreciate that a lot. Right now
   we’re travelling in SE Asia so I’m a little behind.
 * When using [WP-GPX-Maps] you don’t have to have any waypoints in the GPX file
   at all, the plugin just looks at all the images which are added to a page, including
   those in carousels, and if they have GPS data they appear on the map. I don’t
   think they have to be on the actual track, but in my use case they invariably
   are because the track is created by me and I’m the one holding the camera.
 * My preference would be to assign classes to those images which I would want to
   see on the map. That way I could also assign a class to each map on the page,
   and control which images appear on which map, in case there are multiple.
 * The important thing however is that the GPX file should not need any waypoint
   information in order to display the images, because that makes the workflow complicated.
   I normally just take the GPX file exported from my Garmin device and upload it
   straight to WordPress for use. OK, for longer files I filter them using Basecamp
   in order to reduce the number of points, but you get the idea. If I had to manually
   add waypoints and file metadata into the GPX it would be too cumbersome.
 * As before I’m happy to help. My PHP is a bit rusty but HTML and CSS not too bad.
   😉
 *  Plugin Author [Manuel Camargo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirlouen/)
 * (@sirlouen)
 * [3 hours, 20 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-support-image-thumbnails-on-map/#post-19042539)
 * Thanks for the info
 * I think that is not too intuitive. I doubt that barely a handful of users will
   read the docs and realize that they could do this, adding the the coordinates
   on their post images to have them imported in the GPX. Also what happens if there
   are multiple GPX, they will import in both? Only in the first?.
 * The UX idea is usabe, but very weak. I need something stronger, that you can 
   see and use, something that many users can use straight away for its utility.
 * I’m drafting some proposals.
 * The first one is to create a Custom Post Type, as I told, called Waypoints. By
   default, disabled in the General config. Enabling this CPT opens the possibility
   of adding Waypoints individually. Each Waypoint will receive a WordPress ID. 
   Then, I need to figure out a way, to explain how to add that ID in the GPX file,
   or to set up all the published GPX with some ID, and then being able to link 
   those waypoints to those ID (or both options at the same time)
 * Once we have the waypoints linked to the GPX maps, unlimited possibilities of
   configuration will open, like adding an image, which might shown as a little 
   thumbnail, or selecting an icon, among the favicons list (or any other iconlist),
   or also configuring the text within the waypoint, including links and all that.
 * This way it will be very extensible and UX friendly (at least somewhat easy to
   relate given how WP is structured).
 * I think this is going to be the final release, this is something I’ve been thinking
   from the day I released the plugin, but it needs a lot of code, and its probably
   going to be very buggy at first.

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 * Last reply from: [Manuel Camargo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirlouen/)
 * Last activity: [3 hours, 20 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-support-image-thumbnails-on-map/#post-19042539)
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