Greetings — We’re trying out MapPress Pro 2.38.2 beta: exciting features! I especially like the support for KML, ability to enter more than point data, and location awareness.
My question, however, concerns a feature that’s long been in MapPress: geocoding. I’d like to harvest geo_latitude and geo_longitude metadata from posts created using the WP mobile app, as the interface seems cleaner and faster on smart devices than loading the standard website, or even via a mobile plugin such as WPTouch. Your documentation says that “Once an address custom field is specified, MapPress will create a map when a post containing that field is first saved.” I’ve entered the above metadata fields under “Lat/lng fields” in MapPress settings, but I don’t see a map created (e.g., when I edit the post there’s no existing map in MapPress). I’ve checked, and my sample post (from an iOS device) indeed includes geo_latitude and geo_longitude attributes.
It’s possible that I don’t understand how geocoding works in MapPress, or that the new beta has a bug…I suspect the former. If you could advise, I’d sure appreciate. More broadly, the ability of MapPress to support location-aware devices using WP mobile apps via this means would be a huge perk to this plugin!
I’ll contact you separately re. a possible workshop I may organize with NITLE re. geolocated undergraduate digital field research using WP and MapPress.
Regards,
Jim Proctor
sge.lclark.edu