Suggestion: Travel directions

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A feature to add would be google travel directions map. Let users map 
their way to the destination(s) you have on your post(s) or page(s).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bseidn...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2009 at 5:48

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There are so many ways to do this, I wonder how many people would be happy with 
a
default implementation? A "get_directions_link" tag would be a start. You can 
do it
in 1.2.6 with this template code:

<?php $coordinates = GeoMashup::post_coordinates(); ?>
<?php if ( !empty( $coordinates ) ) : ?>
    <p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=<?php echo $coordinates['lat'] . ',' .
$coordinates['lng']; ?>">Get Directions To Here</a></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Original comment by dylankk...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2009 at 12:37

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement

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I vote yes for direction link as an option. Tried the code, works fine, but it 
would
be better if the link does not opens maps.google.com, instead just using the 
existing
map. (sorry..bad english)

Original comment by souhu...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2010 at 2:40

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Can you please tell where should I paste this code :

<?php $coordinates = GeoMashup::post_coordinates(); ?>
<?php if ( !empty( $coordinates ) ) : ?>
    <p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=<?php echo $coordinates['lat'] . ',' .
$coordinates['lng']; ?>">Get Directions To Here</a></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Original comment by antondes...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2010 at 10:54

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As the first commenter pointed out it would be good to implement the navigation 
inside the map embedded in the post instead of opening goolge maps. For example 
our hobby community have a wordpress installation which acts as a kind of 
yellow page implementation for finding address of stores pertaining to our 
hobby in our area where each shop address is shown in the Home page via Geo 
Mashup plugin. However we also needed a map embedded inside the post which 
contained the address of the shop which can allow the hobbyists to navigate 
from the current location to the stores especially when they use mobile. For 
only that particular feature we had to use one extra plugin "Google Maps for 
WordPress". It would be good to implement navigation feature along with 
"current location" support which would be extremely helpful while using mobile 
devices and also desktops. Kindly consider adding this feature.

Original comment by mohanasu...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2010 at 10:10

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There is an interesting implementation of an input field and a Get Directions 
button using JQuery that YOOtheme has into the Google Maps element of its ZOO 
CCK product (for Joomla!).  User inputs an address into the field under the map 
and clicks on the Get Directions and the JQuery code adds the driving 
directions and updates the map to show the path from Point A to Point B 
directly on the same page.  It is a very cool feature.  If Geo Mashup developed 
functionality like this that a user could then implement easily into a template 
using a shortcode, that would be awesome.  Here's a link of an example (scroll 
down to the bottom of the page at this link)
http://www.yootheme.com/zoo/apps/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=120&
category_id=36&Itemid=5

Original comment by hds3serv...@outlook.com on 29 Jun 2014 at 6:09