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Just A quick Note.

1. I can't get the address lookup to work, but the manual option is working.
2. Can I request a way to sort and order the Locations on the admin tab I have 2300?
3. Mass Import? Can i import from CSV etc.. a list of locations names, address and groups into the system?
4. Front end sorting, I have 2 groups set on my listings active and non-active. IS their a way like the "see all button" to Filter the active map to active and non-active?
5. I would also Like if possible to show a number for markers when zoomed out if they are to close? Also not to group different icons together, if possible.

Please Note I can Code, and will customize it my self if needed, but any information to help , or if any of these are planned in the next update.

With Thanks
Carl

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mesuva replied on Jun 5, 2018 at 1:00 pm Permalink Reply

Hi Carl,

>> 1. I can't get the address lookup to work, but the manual option is working.

I've not had any reports of this not working, so I'm wondering if it's just the way you've set up your API key. Google may have changed the way this is configured, but have you followed the steps via:https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/location-map/api-key/... ?
There are _two_ APIs to enable (or at least there were the last time I set this up)

>> 2. Can I request a way to sort and order the Locations on the admin tab I have 2300?

That number of locations is beyond what I envisaged for this add-on, so I'm really not sure how well it will handle it. I have used this for a few hundred locations, but not thousands.
My experience with google maps in general is that it does start to slow down browser rendering with a few hundred markers, plus it starts to increase the page size dramatically. That might be a problem with how you are grouping your markers, but I'd just caution that you may hit these kind of limits with my add-on.

I may have a chance to add in some sorting columns at some point, but it could be a week or more away.

>> 3. Mass Import? Can i import from CSV etc.. a list of locations names, address and groups into the system?

I haven't build for this, primarily because everyone has different expectations on how this would work. However, you could look to just import directly into the MsvLocationMapLocation database table, using whatever tools you like. It doesn't use anything complex like attributes, so you can work with that table directly.

>> 4. Front end sorting, I have 2 groups set on my listings active and non-active. IS their a way like the "see all button" to Filter the active map to active and non-active?

I'm not planning to add this kind of filter myself as it adds a lot to the complexity of the front end. If you tackle this yourself I'm happy to help suggest ways to do this.

>> 5. I would also Like if possible to show a number for markers when zoomed out if they are to close? Also not to group different icons together, if possible.

This sounds like 'Marker Clustering'. I've not used this myself, but from a glance at the doco it does look like it only requires an extra couple of lines to enable:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/marker-c...
You may be able to just create a custom template for the map and add this in.

Cheers
-Ryan

carl101lee replied on Jun 5, 2018 at 2:40 pm Permalink Reply

Good Afternoon,

Thanks for the advise, Ok I fixed the geoloaction thing from google you where correct.

2nd I uploaded a csv containing all 2400 no problem, and they appear on the listings.

How ever the geo-location is not updating on the imported data untill I open it and save then it locates the address... Is their a way to run this command manually on all of the listings? Or will I now have to re-save them all to locate them.

3rd , I am attempting the Marker Clusting using a custom template. Will let you know if it works.

Thanks in Advanced.

mesuva replied on Aug 21, 2018 at 6:23 am Permalink Reply

Hi Carl,

there isn’t a bulk action for the geocoding of addresses, as it can be a slow-ish process, but also because I found it was better handled as a client side process than a server-side one.

If you dig around the code and the /src/MsvLocationMap/Location/Location.php file, at the bottom you’ll see a couple of commented out functions I’ve left in, they’re the original functions used to do the server side lookup.

One possibility could be to uncomment these two functions and write an automated job that fetches the Locations, loops over them and calls the updateLatLong function on the object.
I believe this would still work, but at the very least would be 90% of the way there.

What you’d want to be careful with here is the daily 2500 lookup limit that Google imposes, easy to accidentally hit when running batch processes.

-Ryan

> On 6 Jun 2018, at 12:10 am , concrete5 Community <discussions@concretecms.com> wrote:

carl101lee replied on Jun 7, 2018 at 2:32 pm Permalink Reply

Good Afternoon

An Update for you and a quick question if possible.

Ok I have Imported 2400 locations - But I had to switch to Image files to stop rendering lag on the icons.

I have also enabled marker Cluster, with a little bit of playign and reading it turns out to be very simple to add.

Question:..

I would Like to filter the markers into 2 sets based on their Marker Icons.

markers.push(marker);

I have tried a few ways of sorting the array Markers but have failed? Can you assist?

switch(mID)
    {
    case '1':
        markers1.push(marker);
      break;
    case '2':
        markers2.push(marker);
      break;
    default:
        markers1.push(marker);
    };

What i need to work out is what object to filter on the array I belive?

Regards
Carl

mesuva replied on Jun 7, 2018 at 11:35 pm Permalink Reply

Hi Carl,

when you say filtering, are you still referring to front end filtering with javascript, or in this case are you meaning you just want to filter the list of locations for two different map blocks?

If it's the latter, that's what Location Groups are for, and maybe that could be handled via a couple of quicker SQL updates to put locations into the two groups.

If it's the former, I might need a bit more of the surrounding javascript to work out what you are doing. You're welcome to send through code to ryan@mesuva.com.au and I can take a look.

ConcreteCMS replied on Jun 22, 2018 at 12:03 am Permalink Reply