Latest Open Street Map switch Instructions

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  • September 24, 2018 at 6:22 pm #447555

    rigots
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    Hi,
    Is there a link to the latest / best set of instructions to switch to the Open Street Map?

    Thank you.

    September 25, 2018 at 3:35 am #447600

    Kor
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    Hi rigots,

    Thanks for your post. The only option to switch to “OpenStreetMap” is in GD > Design > Default Map Settings > Select Maps API. Am I misunderstanding your question?

    Thanks!

    September 25, 2018 at 6:13 am #447611

    rigots
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    Hi Kor,
    Thank you, I thought it was much more complicated than that. I thought I needed to go through some process to create an Open Street MAP API and specify that some where.

    I just change the Select Maps API from “Automatic” to “Load OpenStreetMap API” and it worked.
    Do you by any chance know currently how many daily google map loads does one need to have before google starts charging? Because I do like the google maps look much better.

    Thanks,
    Rigo

    September 25, 2018 at 6:45 am #447615

    Kor
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    Hi Rigo,

    Thanks for your reply and I’m glad that helped. For Google Map charges, you can refer to this link https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/ . For USD200 which is given free monthly by Google, you can get up to “28,000 loads”. It means the map on your Website will only be charged if it’s being loaded more than 28,000 times. And for every 1000 load after that will be charge USD7 . You can contact Google for further clarification on the prices. 🙂

    Thanks!

    September 25, 2018 at 7:41 am #447616

    Alex Rollin
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    OSM has some really nice baselayers that are accessible with the Custom Maps Addon.

    Give it a try!

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/custom-google-maps/
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/custom-google-maps/#osm

    September 26, 2018 at 1:00 pm #447798

    justmark
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    So Alex, the Goggle Custom Maps Add on also works with OSM to enable us to change the base layer?

    September 26, 2018 at 1:25 pm #447803

    Alex Rollin
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    It allows the choice between different available baselayers.

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