Switching to different POIs on map from article

[robertskiba]

Hi Guys,

I have a Map at the bottom of an article in WordPress with 4 POIS. In the text-area of the article I want to make an ordered List with the names of the 4 POIs that are clickable and if the user clicks on one of the names the POI on the map should be centered.

Is this possible with mappress pro??

Greetings

robert

[Chris]

Hi Robert,

There’s a function called get_open_link() in ‘mappress_poi.php’ that does something similar.

You can take a look at that code, or try adding javascript like this to whatever element you want to be clickable (an anchor, div, etc. – the code below is for an anchor):

<a href='#' onclick='mapp0.getPoi(0).open(true); return false;'>Click me!</a>

‘mapp0’ means the first map on the page, you can also use the “name” parameter of the shortcode to assign a different name. getPoi(0) means get the first POI, getPoi(1) is the 2nd, and so on. And .open(true) means open and zoom in – set to false to just open the marker.

[robertskiba]

Thank you, works perfect. But it can be quite hard to get the POI-Numbers if you have many POIs because they don’t correlate to the listing when you edit them. Is there a trick?

[Chris]

Hi,

If it is a mashup you’re displaying, you can use getPoiById() instead, and pass it the post ID you want (1234 in this example):

mapp0.getPoiById(1234).open(true);

If you’re displaying a map, the POIs are numbered in the order they appear on the map: 0, 1, 2…and so on.

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