Possible Improvements for OpenStreetMap

[Dautrich]

Hi,

I'm a frequent user of your maps extension and typically configure it to use OpenStreetMap (for privacy reasons). From my workflow, I would like to propose two improvements:

• I would like more than one marker choice. It would be nice to have at least the "Circle" and "Ball" options, as from the OpenStreetMap Wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMa ... f_a_marker).

• Could Phoca Maps remember the coordinates and the zoom level from the last action?
  When I want to add a marker, I will set it most probably in the range of the last selected section. Today, I have to start from world level every time (or have to copy lat and long from the last form). This is relatively cumbersome when I want to set a bunch of markers on one map.

Regards
Rolf

[Jan]

Hi,

- for displaying the markers, the L.AwesomeMarkers library is used and such can be overriden by CSS too, for example if we want to display red small circle as marker:



in our user.css we add:

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.awesome-marker:has(.specific)  {
  width: 10px !important;
  height: 10px !important;
  border-radius: 50% !important;
  margin-left: -5px !important;
  margin-top: -5px !important;
  display: flex !important;
  justify-content: center !important;
  align-items: center !important;
}

.awesome-marker .specific {
  margin-top: 0 !important;
}

so the marker looks like:



- remember - for now there is no such option, I think, maybe some modification with sessions, etc. could be done, the problem is with storing previous values, it can be in conflict with Joomla forms

Jan

[Dautrich]

Hi Jan,

thanks for the clarification about OSM markers. I didn't quite understand your documentation. Maybe you could add that to your docu.

Remember function: You might consider adding another database table, where you store the last 5 (?) lat-lon pairs. Offer these in a drop-down.

What do you think?

Regards
Rolf

[Dautrich]

Hi Jan,

would it be possible to add an alternative marker version to the OSM part? Should be large enough to host the FA icon, but leaner in style (more like a pin)? Reason: If there are many markers close to each other, a large part of the map is covered.

https://imgur.com/a/7uy3tIR#HqJP3p7

Regards
Rolf

BTW: Your help screen on Imgur is no longer correct.

[Jan]

Hi,

added to feature request list: https://github.com/PhocaCz/PhocaMaps/issues/10

but really no idea when I will have time to take a look at it (I am now adapting it to Joomla 6, so first it needs to be J6 ready)

Jan