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Submit a location on Google Maps with form?

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  1. Ian Anderson Gray
    Member

    I'm building a "report a problem" form where a visitor can click on a Google Map to show the location of the problem.

    Does anyone know how I could achieve this? Is there a plugin or a tutorial on how to do this?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday February 27, 2012 | Permalink

  2. jleavitt
    Member

    bump!

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday May 1, 2012 | Permalink

  3. Nick
    Member

    I'd love to know how to do this too. Did you ever have any luck outside this thread?

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday July 7, 2012 | Permalink

  4. wesleyshaw
    Member

    I'd also find this hugely useful.

    Posted 12 years ago on Saturday July 7, 2012 | Permalink

  5. 1-phantomdentist
    Member

    I would find this very useful as well

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 22, 2012 | Permalink

  6. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    After the visitor clicks on a map, what should happen with the information which corresponds to that location? What information should be stored or where should that information go? You could store latitude and longitude, but that would not be very useful if you wanted to actually view a Google Map with that information. Someone please post a use case for this. I'd like to take a look at making it happen.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 22, 2012 | Permalink

  7. 1-phantomdentist
    Member

    I am also very interested in this, any ideas?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 24, 2012 | Permalink

  8. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Lots of ideas. Someone needs to tell me how they would like to use the data that's going to be stored. Will it just be latitude and longitude stored as form inputs?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday August 24, 2012 | Permalink

  9. natlarock
    Member

    For a use scenario, how about if you are creating a user-submitted Events section on your site. In addition to allowing visitors to post information about their upcoming events (such as time, date, price,) you'd like to have their venue appear on a map that shows up as part of the custom post. Instead of lat and long, could it pinpoint the address on a Google map based on the street address they input?

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday August 28, 2012 | Permalink

  10. walkeryri
    Member

    I've a similar use where users can add routes, places and snow reports to my site. I did use some code someone had posted on this forum to do so with WP-GEO, but I'm now using Geo Mashup as my mapping plugin of choice and I've not figured it out (though I do have a map appearing, and lat lon being shown, it's not feeding through to my new plugin) and tbh, I'm not likely to!
    To complicate matters, I'm also using a geo-location plugin (Geo My WP - awesome plugin), which plays nicely with Geo Mashup, which pulls the information from Geo My WP's address fields automatically.
    So what I'd be after is that Gravity Forms could embed the Geo My WP location finder and map into a form, allowing the users to plot their location by the powerful location search in that plugin.
    My example is on http://www.mudandroutes.com/share-your-route, while the plugin in question is at - http://geomywp.com/support/forums/topic/retrieve-lat-long/ - with the plugin developer appearing keen to add this functionality to his plugin. I think that the combination of these three plugins would provide a powerful tool for user submitted geo-content.

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday October 7, 2012 | Permalink