Geocode inside a CustomPostType

[Avantart]

Hello Chris,

I am looking for a solution:
I create CustomPostTypes with TYPES (www.wp-types.com) and I publish the content with their VIEW-plugin. Everything is ok.
In the CPT, I ask for adress data and therefor it would be very easy to have MapPressPro to create the maps automatically. It works fine that way.

My problem is that I must store the LAT and LONG coordinates as well, because my clients will integrate other maps beside google maps as well (german navigation maps for pedestrians and cyclists,http://www.dino-navi.de/, which works only with LAT and LONG, not with adresses.

That is wyh I must store the LAT and LONG in dedicated Custom Fields, but I can’t find a way how to offer a nice geocoder to my users who have to create these CustomPostType-pages.
Is there a way to add a geocoder to a certain CPT and have its results stored in custom fields?

Or, as a workaround, offer a geocoder in a metabox in the side-position, where the users can click, generate the coordinates and copy them into their customfields-input?

Maybe I do not see the forest because of the many trees (german proverb),

cheers, Connie

[Chris]

Hi Connie,

The plugin doesn’t have any functionality to add geocoders in post editors.

But if you’re using MapPress to generate maps from the address, it is already geocoding each address into a lat/lng. With some PHP code you could capture those values and save them to custom fields.

I haven’t tested this code but it might help to get you started:

<?php
function mysave($post_ID, $post) {
  // Get the first map & first poi for this post
  $maps = get_post_map_list($post->ID);

  // Get first map and its first poi
  if (!empty($maps) && !empty($map[0]->pois)) {
	  $poi = $map[0]->pois[0];
      update_post_meta($post->ID, 'my_lat', $poi->point['lat']);
      update_post_meta($post->ID, 'my_lng', $poi->point['lng']);
  }
}

add_action('save_post', array(&$this, 'save_post'), 110, 2);

[Avantart]

Thank you, Chris,

I will test this as soon as possible!

Cheers, Connie

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