geocoding

[p36p]

Hi Chris I have two questions :

– The content is geocoded, It’s gecoded forever right ? it’s not geocoded every time I search it ?

– Is it possible to auto fill a custom field LATITUDE and LONGITUDE from the automattic map generated from adress/Zip/city custom field ?

Thank you very much for your answers

[Chris]

Hi,

The map is created and saved in the database so it doesn’t need to be geocoded on each request.  This makes things much faster (geocoding can take 1 sec) and also helps to avoid Google’s per-day geocoding limits.

You can write the lat/lng values to a custom field by hooking into the ‘save’ action.  I haven’t tested it, but code like this should write the first poi lat/lng to custom fields:

<?php 
function myaction($map) {
 global $post;
 $first_poi = isset($map->pois[0]) ? $map->pois[0] : null;
 if ($first_poi) {
   $lat = $poi->point['lat'];
  $lng = $poi->point['lng'];
  update_post_meta($post->ID, 'mylat', $lat);
  update_post_meta($post->ID, 'mylng', $lat);
 }
}
add_action('mappress_map_save', 'myaction', 10, 2);
?>

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