[Resolved] Map featuring markers with exactly the same address

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[michaelM-32]

I have a client with a vast number of demolition projects across decades. They would like a projects page that shows their projects on a map. They would like to show that sometimes they demolish and rebuild in exactly the same location multiple times.

For example:
Project A was completed in 1995 at 123 fake st.
Project B was completed in 2010, also at 123 fake st.
Project C was completed in 2017, also at 123 fake st.

There are two possible solutions and I would like to achieve either:
Solution 1: the popup content of a marker that represents three projects shows a scrollable div featuring all of the projects that have been completed in that address.
Solution 2: the map is used as a sorting tool which shows all of the projects below the map

Are either of these possible?

I have found people have had the same issues over a year ago, and that requests to make this a feature of the plugin had been made around that time. So is it now a feature or has nothing happened?

Maybe it would be possible to create a custom loop that has some if-then functionality to determine if a marker already exists in that location, then append the popup content with content from the loop's current post. (would that work?)

Kind regards,
Mikey

[Nigel]

Hi Mikey

We added the spiderify library to Maps to solve the problem of displaying markers with the same address, which is described here:

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/display-on-google-maps/displaying-markers-on-google-maps/#displaying-multiple-markers-that-appear-on-the-same-location

There isn't really any alternative solution, so hopefully your client will be willing to go with that.

[michaelM-32]

Awesome! Thanks!