Title: Google Maps Overlay
Last modified: January 11, 2018

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# Google Maps Overlay

 *  Resolved [givenway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/givenway/)
 * (@givenway)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-overlay/)
 * Potential customers join my “Wait List” to get notified when training that is
   scheduled in their area. During signup, they are required to select their county
   of residence so that I can see where we have the greatest demand. They may even
   go so far as to provide a full address. Do you have any ideas how I can automate
   plotting the locations on Google Maps for a quick visual analysis of where the
   potential customers are located?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgoogle-maps-overlay%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-overlay/#post-9856317)
 * This is certainly possible, but it does require the technical knowledge to configure
   a Google map with multiple locations. The easiest way to do this with Participants
   Database is to use a special template for the [pdb_list] shortcode that takes
   all the locations and plots them to the map. Adding approximate locations (for
   instance, just the country) makes things a bit more complicated because the map
   wants specific coordinates for each location.
 * I don’t have any working code that demonstrates this, so I don’t have an example
   to offer.
 * The technical details can be found in the [Google Maps API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/api-picker),
   but you’ll need to be a coder to use it.
 *  Thread Starter [givenway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/givenway/)
 * (@givenway)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-overlay/#post-9876489)
 * I’m going to make this work eventually, when I actually have time to devote to
   the project. I’ll post the code/solution so others can benefit when I get it 
   done.

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 * Last reply from: [givenway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/givenway/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-maps-overlay/#post-9876489)
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