draw a search area on a map feature for a website

[petemurphy]

hi - any ideas how they would have added this draw a search are feature:

https://www.quealy.co.uk/draw-a-search

or like the right move one? looking for an easy way to add to a website - pref wordpress and pref using google maps


thanks!

[mikef]

Straightforward to code the map using Google maps API and javascript. No idea about WordPress but I imagine that you can add a google map and include your own javascript and css ?

The tricky bit isn't drawing the shape on the map, it's constraining the (presumably SQL) query behind it using geospatial search

[hyphen]

As he said, the google map API and other Maps offer this built in https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/j...

Have a look at wordpress plugins and see if you can find one that does it.

Rightmove do a better job of it than that site you linked to by the way.

Edited by hyphen on Monday 25th May 18:06

[petemurphy]

mikef said:

Straightforward to code the map using Google maps API and javascript. No idea about WordPress but I imagine that you can add a google map and include your own javascript and css ?

The tricky bit isn't drawing the shape on the map, it's constraining the (presumably SQL) query behind it using geospatial search

hmmm ok wondered if theres a plugin etc that may do it am surprised a little estate agent has it if its complicated?

[The_Jackal]

Well that little estate agent would just pay a company to write their website.

[petemurphy]

The_Jackal said:

Well that little estate agent would just pay a company to write their website.

true but thinking if it was hard then it may be a lot of money to pay for that feature - i imagine rightmove have massive amount of developers on theirs. will check out the google maps api thanks