cyberhobo
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6 years ago Howdy! Geo Mashup does have features intended for these purposes that you can try.
I haven't tested it with jetpack, but the save location shortcode was meant for the post-by-email type of scenario. If jetpack converts email attachments to post attachments, you could also try attaching a KML file, which could include multiple points.
A map tag with map_content="contextual" should include located posts listed on the current page. You can also make a global map filtered by category with the map_cat parameter.
Hope that helps, grand journeys to you.
We are very excited to have found the geo mashup plugin and we're looking forward to installing it on our site. We are sailors hardly near cell or internet connection so we use our SSB radio to send Sailmail emails to the post by email feature to update our position and status on our blog. We are so happy with the results. However, we are unable to add geolocation shortcodes to display our location via the Jetpack Post By Email feature. We have already contacted Jetpack and they do not plan on implementing this as a feature.
We are currently using WPGeo by Ben Hunson to map our travels on ComfortCruising.com. Sadly his shortcode does not work reliably to create a map using the Post By Email feature, so when we finally do get to land or an actual place with an internet connection then we have to spend hours going back through our post and updating the locations and proper fields to create a map that links to our post and displays in our widget.
In our magical world of rainbows and unicorns. We would like to be able to enter our lat, long, marker choice, short description in an email and have it post at the top of the page. Even better if we could have multiple markers on a map associated to post. As we are constantly on the move but we like to pass on info to our cruising friends we collect coordinates then we post the coordinates to help them out. i.e. where is the grocery store, where to tie up the dinghy, the house location of a crazy man with a machete etc.
Additionally, having a sidebar widget that displays a dot for every post displayed on the page (which WP Geo does really well). For example, our position report is called our Noon Report, so we have a category called Noon Report and our front page of our site is filtered for only Noon Reports so the widget shows a dot on a map for each noon report we have written.
We're new to geo location so we're looking forward to your thoughts. Kind regards, Sara and Wade