Mapping nightmare

  • Resolved SomniumLucidus

    (@somniumlucidus)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I’m having trouble getting the plugin to locate and point to the proper address on Google Maps.
    I’m trying to make it work with the following address:

    Fundación Museo de La Plata “Francisco Pascasio Moreno”
    Museo de La Plata
    Paseo del Bosque s/n
    La Plata
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina

    It’s the HQ of a foundation which is located inside a museum building, so it’s not relevant whether the map marker pins the office or the museum itself.

    I know that Google Maps finds easily the foundation (Fundación Museo de La Plata “Francisco Pascasio Moreno”) or the museum (Museo de La Plata), so this is not a matter of places that haven’t been mapped.

    I also have the coordinates: 34°54′32.48″S 57°56′7.63″W
    …or -345432.48 57567.63
    And I wish I could enter them directly, since the written address just takes me anywhere but to the museum or the foundation’s quarters. (The closest I got was the geographic center of the city.)

    Any ideas?
    TIA!

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  • Ugh, Google is really messing things up on this one!

    Usually when Google doesn’t recognize a full address like that, there’s a trick we can pull to get it to use better coordinates. The trick is to type in an address that it recognizes, click “Retrieve Map Coordinates”, then adjust the address above and save without resetting the coordintes.

    In this case, though, I can’t get Google’s API to return valid coordinates for any of the addresses I tried. I even found it on Google Maps, copied the name from there, and it still wouldn’t give me the right coordinates!

    The only way around this now is to manually set the coordinates. To do this, you need to be able to work with the element inspector in your browser (F12 in Chrome). Are you able to open do a bit of under-the-hood manipulation of the HTML code?

    Thread Starter SomniumLucidus

    (@somniumlucidus)

    Are you able to open do a bit of under-the-hood manipulation of the HTML code?

    Yeah, I routinely do a bit of code, so I’m familiar with the element inspector. Thanks for looking into this.

    Ok, here’s a screenshot showing the hidden fields you need to edit in your inspector. If you inspect the View link, that should get you close in the DOM to the element you’re looking for.

    Notice the format of lat/lon is in decimals. You’ll need to emulate that format instead of the **°**′**.**″ notation.

    Once you’ve edited the hidden fields, click the save button and it should put the pin at the correct location.

    The downside to this is that the Get Directions link won’t work. Google uses the physical address for that feature (not lat/lon) and so it won’t point to the right location.

    Thread Starter SomniumLucidus

    (@somniumlucidus)

    Thanks, that worked!
    The Get Directions wasn’t really needed, so it won’t be missed.

    Marking this as “resolved”!

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