charfield1976

Thanks. All going well so far. Added multiple different coloured markers to my maps, but oh boy! You have got to be super careful with typing- one little space missing between “….gpx” and ‘marker’ and all I got was a big grey rectangle! Sorted it straight away, so I am very happy. I feel like I’ve started learning a new language- now I know how my students felt when I was teaching them French!

Thank you for your help- adding these maps has made my day!

I’ve solved the problem myself! I went back into OS Map settings on my WordPress dashboard and changed ‘Map Zoom’ from ‘1:25,000 zoom’ to ‘1:25,000’.

Perhaps this will help someone else, in any case.

P.S I’m sure you know this, but the closing and opening brackets have showed up in my message above as %5D- I’m guessing the formatting on here doesn’t allow for the straight brackets.

Hello, well I can’t quite believe it, but with very meticulous reading of your instructions and much trial and error, I have finally managed to put my map with walking route (in yellow and widened!!) on my website!
I am also getting to grips with what each attribute means and what happens when I change it. This is a big deal for me since only a couple of months ago I literally knew nothing about the workings of websites, let alone what a plugin was!

I come on to my next issue- I put in my gpx URL and this displays my walking route on the map. However, I’m trying to put a marker in for the start point. I read in the instructions that this is possible:

“Note that you can display a GPX file and markers on the same map. The auto-zoom will work on the GPX file and not the markers. If your markers are just showing waypoints on the route then this will not be a problem, but if they lie outside the route then you may not see them all.”

So I made an attempt by putting the following with my existing shortcode:
[osmap gpx=”https://charlottesramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mepal-and-the-Hundred-Foot-Drain.gpx”%5D%5Bosmap markers=”TL4404981313;Start”]
Then:
[osmap gpx=”https://charlottesramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mepal-and-the-Hundred-Foot-Drain.gpx”%5D%5Bosmap markers=”TL4404981313;Start”]

One showed 2 maps- my map with route and no marker; and one below- zoomed in map with marker but no route.
Second attempt showed only the latter map.

What am I doing wrong here? I’ll bet it’s a simple fix, but I’m stumped.

By the way, thank you so very much for your help.